A BUTLER BIOGRAPHY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 122, 25 May 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

A BUTLER BIOGRAPHY.

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN NOVELS. NEW ZEALAND POETRY. Mr. R. C. Sherriff'a "Journey's End" is now to be translated into Hebrew for publication in Palestine. This will make the twenty-third language in which the play has appeared. It is stated in a recent book on Early Victorian England, that in the census of 1851, out of 20,425 private schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, 708 signed' , their returns with a mark. "Nicholas Nickleby," with Mr. Squcers of Dothoboys Hall, was published in IS.JO. So far, remarks the "Glasgow Herald," the English novel that concerns itself with politics and politicians has not inspired any confidence in its potentiality as a rival for the thriller. Either its characters are dull dogs painted almost duller than life or they are so melodramatically unlike the real creatures of flesh and blood that their Ruritanian escapades excite only hilarity. A sidelight on Mr. Bernard Shaw. Captain H. C. Biard tells in "Wings" how he took Mr. Shaw aloft and looped the loop with him. "He stood the display without turning a hair. He seemed chiefly interested in tho fact that, when one is flying upside down in the loop, there is no particular sensation of invortedness. Mr. Shaw commented upon this as he climbed out of his seat. 'The world is like that, young man!' he remarked gravely. He then fished into the depths of his pockets, solemnly presented me with ten shillings, and added, 'I hope- you will use it properly'."