He seem to have conquered Gosse completely . He spend his Sundays in long walks with H G Wells . He dine every week with Max Beerbohm and R Ross ... and this have befallen a not very clever young man of 23 . Am I a little jealous ? – no , I don 't think so . But I am a little bewildered ... I do not see any sign of intellectual power or perception or grasp or subtlety in his work or himself . ... I should call him curiously unperceptive . He do not , for instance , see what may vex or hurt or annoy people . I think he is rather tactless – though he is himself very sensitive . The strong points about him are his curiosity , his vitality , his eagerness , and the emotional fervour of his affections . But he seem to me in no way likely to be great as an artist .