Joan (produced 1876)
(Dramatized, without permission, from That Lass o' Lowries, by Mrs. Hodgson Burnett).
Drink (produced 1879)
(Adapted from L'Assommoir by Emile Zola).
Single Heart and Double Face (produced 1882)
(A dramatic version of the story of the same name).
GEORGE JOHN WHYTE-MELVILLE
1821-1878
G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE
Although as an authority on matters sporting Whyte-Melville stands alone, it is yet impossible, with the best will in the world and with all the respect due to his personal chivalry and courage, to regard him in the rôle of novelist as anything but absurd.
His books, where they deal with the science and the joys of hunting, have the vivid appeal that only delighted conviction can give; but as fiction, as readings of life adequately expressed in English prose, they are negligible and often ludicrous.