Bernard Shaw, following his habit, lets himself go in prefaces to his “On the Rocks” and other plays which Constable is publishing. One preface deals with the possibilities of democracy now that it is confronted with dictatorial systems of government. The other discusses the right claimed and practised by post-war governments to exterminate incornpatibles and undesirables. Hutchinson Ltd. has biographical works by two well-known novelists. Rafael Sabatini has chosen six figures, among them Walter Raleigh, Nelson, and Florence Nightingale, and he presents them as “Heroic Lives.” Miss Isabel Clarke, who not long ago did a book around the Brontes, has now done another on Shelley and Byron. |
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Southland Times, Issue 22293, 7 April 1934, Page 11
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