Books: Greatest Shavian

G. B S. A FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT—Hesketh Pearson—Harper ($3.50).

In the spring of 1898 there appeared in London's Saturday Review a drama column which said: "The English do not know what to think until they are coached, laboriously and insistently for years, in the proper and becoming opinion. For ten years past ... I have been dinning into the public head that I am an extraordinarily witty, brilliant and clever man. That is now part of the public opinion of England; and no power in heaven or on earth will ever change it. I may...

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