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.; Mr. Bernard ; Shaw has from. timo :to ....■ time complained...that:-people'.'will";- not ctak? ■ him seriously, and once he compared the /British public iii : relation to himself with'-an old AlethodistVlady who, having come-to'live in London, stumbled into Bradlaugh's :hall binder the ;impression that she ; was entering '.' Zion Chapel, , .and; who "sat'for.-\years, Bradlaugh's' eloquence once. "moulting a f Slrthod.3xy. HTJiSre (p e*Jpeople, however (au'Enghsh paper, noles), who'aot only take;' him seriously, but solemnly. Such is a writer in\ tho, : . New, York -"Nation,": who. - seizes Mr. Shaw.very..m.uch.as a.parish beadle might a naughty urchin,'and,rato3 him soundly. His sole;.vocation is..- to ; "manufacture'.' paradox." TiVit of his'sort is .made by prescription. • "Just turn upside down what good people believe and: Eou have the truth, is Shaw's formula." Then' o-vwaxes'.sarcastic. over-Shaw's"treatment , -of. .Shalcespeare.": "Among other things of which Shakespeare was. artistically gnilty was. using blank. ; veise—and. bad blank verse—because he was riot, able. to write good prose, y. To show ;how Shakespeare would havo doae.it;and how. easy- it-is, Shaw."'wrotei'.a, play iivShakespeare's stylo. ■; It. is';'so ■ good- thot no mistake 'it for , : Shakespeare's, and, 'perverseW; they [sic] will'continue to prefer the Bard of Avon; .for. they.knoV".no, better."■•■ The public are not/ yet-ripe'.-for'Trac'h .uses of Mr. Shaw's figure of speech, and the. ;:b..;propa- '• gandaUtp;?bi'BlamHthe■ eloraence" :of the'-paradqx.ffr'after. which ; he:roay/hope to :cfam''ms'absurdiKesV"do-\vn-.people,S;.throats. . .'•Airof,-whlch?sußgests, that, the.-.wise: alternative 't6\{aT£>n'Biitri"-' : Snaw! seriouslyi is him •gpod-humouredly. '■ ■••'.....> ':<■ ■'-. : . •-. :•'■ Y.-'r'-tO- . '. ■ '■''■■■i''Th'e'!;l(»noclasl;'" and/the fpepple-; whose j'.p'ride "ifc \% that ■ their'senses • are' -'dead will 'see inn' "liver.*q'otUrigrmore ,'much \ Eathe'red' in'.a '. harrow: plaoe'anii;f the, TnVSterv : bf. gravitation inclines .)t,'> writes ilr.. •H '"Belloo "in :the ' ''Morning,.Post.'.;'V "Their moq'dMsl'the/mcKjd: of;'that' gentleman'iWho de. SDaired;:arid .'.'. ; ;: cloud's'.a*ilot;of'vappur,-.'.>;;';r';.:.v.. ■- . '•.'■■! -''■'■'."! .l , he-sky , e,-a'J.6t.of > air,"-.- ,, -.i.:-'-!:'H:" . ■■'■' ■■ j':-..-VU"'And" the sea's a lot-of::wat«riy.-.'-J.'-.- ■ ■''.;:;...-'.'V■ That happens-' to be ..there/. , !: ,t.'.■;. ": '' "Ton • cannot: get; furtfeir- down," than.;, that. When you i have got as. far ■VdoTv'n; as> that,; all islov'er. Luckily, God 'still- keeps ;.his-,mysteries going/.fotvyoui'/ahd ;yqu^ean't^B?t;; ; ritK, even m that mood,- of,the-;certitude -that. you,;yourseK exist,- 'and- that' outside'^of r you.'.''-But'when. tou-.get;;into that modern mood' you -do lose, the 'personality of ; ev:er.vthing :.else?<and you •forget;, the;; sanctity iof-J-iver-heade." : '---.:-'.>■ ■' ■" .!.->■ t :■-; : f '■■■' : 'y- •- -■■iThere'is^nothing;-;tb' : be ;'6aid;a'gaih'st,!;bul: a "great • deal in favour of,.' a" well-selected cpllection'of novelsl-Dr.ißew; Morrison:-, :< ,/.■ ■. .