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-LSB- Of notices and reviews of George Gissing other than those mentioned in the foregoing notes the following is a selection : -- _ Times _ , 29 Dec. 1903 ; _ Guardian _ , 6 Jan. 1904 ; _ Outlook _ , 2 Jan. 1904 ; _ Sphere _ , 9 Jan. 1904 ; _ Athenaeum _ , 2 and 16 Jan. 1904 ; _ Academy _ , 9 Jan. 1904 -LRB- pp. 40 and 46 -RRB- ; New York _ Nation _ , 11 June 1903 -LRB- an adverse but interesting paper on the anti-social side of Gissing -RRB- ; _ The Bookman _ -LRB- New York -RRB- , vol . xviii. ; _ Independent Review _ , Feb. 1904 ; _ Fortnightly Review _ , Feb. 1904 ; _ Contemporary Review _ , Aug. 1897 ; C.F.G. Masterman 's _ In Peril of Change _ , 1905 , pp. 68-73 ; _ Atlantic Monthly _ , xciii . 280 ; _ Upton Letters _ , 1905 , p. 206 . -RSB- It was five o'clock on a June morning . The dirty-buff blind of the lodging-house bedroom shone like cloth of gold as the sun 's unclouded rays poured through it , transforming all they illumined , so that things poor and mean seemed to share in the triumphant glory of new-born day . In the bed lay a young man who had already been awake for an hour . He kept stirring uneasily , but with no intention of trying to sleep again .