MR SHAW’S BOOKS

Southland Times, Issue 22296, 11 April 1934, Page 8

MR SHAW’S BOOKS

OMNIVOROUS READER

PRESENTED TO SHIP’S LIBRARY VARIED LIST (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, April 10. ■ln the library of the motor liner Rangitane, which is now at Wellington and in which Mr and Mrs George Bernard Shaw travelled to New Zealand, there are 23 books, which were given to the ship by Mr Shaw after he had read them during the voyage. A list of these books was made to a reporter- to-day. The titles and authors are: “First Childhood,” “Lord Berners,” “Marriage is no Joke,” (Birdie), “Treaty of Waitangi, (Buick), “New Zealand in the Making (Condliffe), “Travel in New Zealand (Cowan), “Divine Need of a Rebel’ (Chapple) “A Rebel’s Vision Splendid (Chapple), “De Valera” (Gwynn), “Amazing Career of Edward Gibbon Wakefield” (Harrop), “A New Fundimentalism” (Henry), “And Now Goodbye” (Hilton), “My Struggle (Hitler), “Sailors, Statesmen and Others (Kenworthy), “Memoirs of a British Agent (Lochart), “Edward VII” (Maurois), “Napoleon and his Marshals (MacDonell), “Rhodes” (Millin), The Smith of Smiths” (Rearson), “Bernard Shaw” (Rattray), “A New Zealand Holiday” (Rees), “Portrait of Clare, (Young), “My Brother Jonathan (Young), “War Memories of David Lloyd George” (two volumes). “Mr Shaw read a tremendous amount during the voyage,” said one of the officers of the Rangitane to a reporter. “He read all the way through his meals, and, it seemed, during the greater part of each day. His best exercise came after his morning swim in the ships baths. This occurred without fail at about 7 o’clock, and after it he made good entertainment for the others on board by going through a system of exercises on his back. He and Mrs Shaw were very much liked by the other passengers.”