Messrs. Heinemann publish a new limited edition of Mr. George
Moore's Hail and Farewell, signed by the author, with a new preface. Hail and Farewell is Mr. Moore's most agreeable, most important piece of work ; and perhaps, as he suggests in the preface, that is because so much of its interest depends upon other people, on the news we have of Mr. W. B. Yeats, 1B, Lady Gregory, and their always astounding circle. The preface is characteristic of Mr. Moore in its gentle, backbone- less impertinence—" James M'Neill (I drop the Whistler, the name being an absurd one and a disparagement to his paint- ing) " he writes. There is a long digression on the abilities of Nature as an Artist. " James M'Neill's point," he concludes, "is that Nature is rarely an artist. But may we not say the same of Man? Are not then. Man and Nature equal, both of them being seldom artists ? "
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