THE RISE OF MR SHAW
to the innon ok the rxrss. 1 Sir,—lt seems to me that the present is a proper occasion to ask you to re- ; print a passage from My J.it'c and Times, the autobiography of Jerome K. Jerome. The passage follow;. - "Shaw had for some time been known \ 10 the police as one of Die most not or- i ious sneakers in Hyde Park; and his name \vas now becoming familiar to the general public as the result ol : scurrilous attacks, disguised as inter- , views, that were being made upon him ; bv a section of the evening press. Ihe interviewer would force Ins way into ! Shaw's modest, apartment, apparently ' for no other purgpse than to bully and : him. Many maintained that , I Shaw must be an imaginary person. ; Why did he stand it? Why didn't he kick the interviewer downstairs? Failing that, why didn't he call in the poTice? It seemed difficult to believe , in the existence of a human being so i amazingly Christian-like as this poor, j persecuted Shaw appeared to be. As \ a matter of fact, the interviews were ; written by Shaw himself."-Yours, ! etC " HADDOCK. : March 19, 1904.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21118, 20 March 1934, Page 14
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