Books: Shawdust

WHAT I REALLY WROTE ABOUT THE WAR—Bernard Shaw—Brentano ($3.75). A wily prima donna among intellectuals, George Bernard Shaw knows that to hold the public eye it is necessary to make frequent appearances on stage. His present occasion, to lay the dust he raised when he wrote about the War, is made happy by many witty words. Having "no ethical respect for modern Capitalist civilization," Socialist Shaw "contemplated the British, German and French sections . . . with impartial disapproval. I felt as if I were witnessing an engagement between two pirate fleets,...

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