Citation: Greville MacDonald, George MacDonald and His Wife, with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1924).
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MacDonald, Greville (Matheson). George MacDonald and his Wife. By Greville MacDonald, M.D.: with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton.
London: George Allen & Unwin (May 20), 1924.
8vo, pp. iv + 576 + (54, containing 27 illustrations mostly portraits, with an illustration of MacDonald’s bookplate (p. i) and a facsimile of his manuscript (p. 8).
Dr. MacDonald, who is George MacDonald’s eldest son, writes like a fellow artist, as well as a son, a feeling expressed in the sonnet in which the father in 1883 dedicated “A Threefold cord” to the son:— “not son only— brother, friend art thou.”
There is a short bibliography (pp. 563-565), with a fair index. The present bibliography is indebted for a good many facts to the life, and Dr. MacDonald has also given the present compiler much additional information. Dr. MacDonald has written prefaces to several of the reissues of his father’s books, notably the fairy
stories, and “Lilith,” for which he has an immense admiration.
He himself writes admirable fairy stories.
- Speeches delivered in London; Aberdeen Press and Journal (Nov. 7,
- Dec. 13, 1924).
- Letter to Aberdeen celebration; ibid, (Dec. 13, 1924).
- Speech at Manchester (Dec. 18, 1924).
- Address on ” George MacDonald’s poetry, in verse and prose,” to the Poetry Society in the Savoy Chapel, London (Jan. 12,1925): Times (Jan. 13, p. 10).
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