Klesmer, Herr Julius

A great musician who marries Miss Arrowpoint, the heiress. "Herr Klesmer being a felicitous combination of the German, the Sclave, and the Semite, with grand features, brown hair float ing in artistic fashion, and brown eyes in spectacles. His English had little foreignness except its fluency; and his alarming cleverness was made less formidable just then by a certain softening air of silliness which will sometimes befall even Genius in the desire of being agreeable to Beauty." While he discourages Gwendolen Harleth, when after the loss of her mother's fortune she consults him about going on the stage, he appreciates Mirah Cohen's talent and helps her in her musical career. The original of Klesmer was said to have been Liszt, whom George Eliot met at Weimar. (See article by Lord Acton in Nineteenth Century, vol. 17, p. 483.)

<em>Daniel Deronda</em>

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