THE REAL SELF.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12732, 24 August 1934, Page 7

THE REAL SELF.

SHAW ON SHAWL In writing o‘ his career, Bernard Shaw says: “My training lias enabled me to produce an impression of being an extraordinarily clever, original .and brilliant writer, deficit only m feeling, whereas the truth is that, though I am in a way a man of genius. yet T am not in the least naturally brill in lie, and not at all ready or clever. Tf literary men generally were pnt through the mill I went through, and kept out of their stuffy little coteries, where works of art breed in and in until the intellectual and spiritual product becomes hopelessly degenerate, I should have 1 thousand rivals more brilliant than myself. There is nothing more mischievous than the nation that ny works are the mere play of a delightfully clever and whimsical hero of the saloons; they are the result or perfectly straightforward drudgery, persevered in everv day.”