INDEX

Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 400-1. Academy, 246, 287. Achurch, Janet, 299, 304, 353-4. Actors' Society Monthly Bulletin, The, 369. Adams, Maurice, 104. Addison, Joseph, 199. Ade, George, 136. Adelphi Terrace, 20. Admirable Bashville, The. See G. B. Shaw. Aldwych Theatre, 401. Alexander, George, 183, 282. Allen, Grant, 279. Allen, Rev. G. W., 102. Alma-Tadema, Sir L., 287. Amateur Photographer, 226. Anderton's Hotel, 115, 131. Angelo, Michael, 31, 46, 90, 153, 218-9, 225, 243, 291, 393. Archer, William, 20, 75, 84, 90, 91, 142, 251, 297, 306, 315, 327, 333, 369, 413, 417, 443; and Cashel Byron's Profession, 61, 76; first sees Shaw, 97; and Shaw's career as a critic, 195; and Shaw's musical criticisms, 232-3; and Shaw's dramatic criticisms, 279 et sqq., 286; collaborates with Shaw, 293, 295; and Shaw as a dramatist, 299; and Mrs. Warren's Profession, 307-8, 363, 425; and Arms and the Man, 316-17; and You Never Can Tell, 325; and Shaw's greatest work, 378; and Major Barbara, 387; and The Doctor's Dilemma, 390 et sqq.; and stage directions, 419; and Widowers' Houses, 445; and Shaw's sentiment, 507. Arms and the Man. See G. B. Shaw. Arnold, Matthew, 96. Arnold, Sir Edwin, 299. Art Moderne, L', 348. Atlantic Monthly, The, 484. Augier, E., 294. Author, The, 91. Aveling, Dr., 114, 160, 164, 261. Avenue Theatre, 312 et sqq., 316. Bab, Julius, 85, 249, 402. Bach, 236, 240, 252. Bahr, Hermann, 198, 353, 358, 410, 414, 424. Bakunin, Michel, 98, 189, 247. Balfour, Right Hon. A. J., 372, 404. Ball Publishing Co., 111. Barker, Granville, 286, 368, 371-2, 388, 398, 446. Barnby, Sir Joseph, 237. Barrie, J. M., 404. Barry, James, 200. Bashkirtseff, Marie, 5, 273. Bax, Belfort, 51, 98, 164, 485-6; his article, Socialism and Bourgeois Culture, 159. Beaumarchais, 23. Beaumont and Fletcher, 264, 366. Bebel, F. A., 152, 180, 186. Beerbohm, Max, 231, 288, 339, 363, 394, 425, 496. Beethoven, 18, 23-4, 73, 153, 240, 243, 250, 257, 393. Beeton, 158. Bell, Chichester, 34-5, 44. Bellamy, Edward, 152. Bellini, 18. Bennett, Sterndale, 237. Berlioz, 234, 257. Bernstein, Eduard, 165. Besant, Mrs. Annie, 52, 92, 109, 113 et sqq., 125, 133, 144, 160, 165, 178, 283, 484. Beyle, Henri, 20, 412, 463. Birmingham, George A., 401. Bispham, David, 238. Bizet, 24, 61. Blake, William, 447, 454 et sqq., 466, 469, 473. Bland, Hubert, 67, 99, 102, 114 et sqq., 128-9, 169, 175, 178. Bland, Mrs. Hubert, 128-9. Blavatsky, Madame, 127. Blum, M. Jean, 337. Booth, General, 387. Borchardt, Miss, 484. Borsa, Mario, 270. Boston Transcript, 287. Bouguereau, W. A., 222. Bourget, Paul, 416, 464. Bradlaugh, Charles, 137-8, 144, 160, 176. Braekstad, Hans L., 272. Brahms, 241, 243. Brandes, Dr. Georg, 306, 307, 311, 313, 347, 359-60, 418, 464. Brentanos, 54-5. Brieux, Eugène, 432, 439. Brooke, Stopford, 15, 93, 208. Brown, Ford Madox, 212, 219-20. Browning, Robert, 31-2, 40, 219, 412, 415, 466. Browning Society, 135. Bruneau, 245. Brunetière, Ferdinand, 307, 309. Bryant, D. Sophia, 37-8. Bülow, Hans Von, 241. Bunyan, John, 268, 447, 473. Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, 206, 212, 221, 225. Burne-Jones, Lady, 206. Burns, Right Hon. John, 112 et sqq., 127, 142, 166, 174. Burrows, 113. Butler, Samuel, 480, 483. Byron, Lord, 143, 215, 364. Cæsar and Cleopatra. See G. B. Shaw. Cairnes, J. E., 155. Calderon, 432. Calvé, Mme., 245. Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 372. Campbell, Lady Colin, 212. Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 228, 392. Candida. See G. B. Shaw. Candid Friend, The, 42, 60, 98, 147, 202, 476. Captain Brassbound's Conversion. See G. B. Shaw. Carlyle, Thomas, 253, 271, 336, 434, 457, 474. Carnegie, Andrew, 383, 385. Carpaccio, 227. Carpenter, Captain Alfred, 99. Carpenter, Edward, 50, 99, 114. Carroll, Rev. William George, 15. Cashel Byron's Profession. See G. B. Shaw. Caxton Magazine, 211. Cellier, Alfred, 233. Century Magazine, 505. Chamberlain, Right Hon. Joseph, 404. Chamfort, Nicholas, 456. Champion, Henry Hyde, 48, 51, 52-3, 102, 112 et sqq., 125, 155. Chap-Book, The, 29, 57, 149. Chapman and Hall, 47. Chapman, George, 264. Charrington, Charles, 354. Charrington, Mrs. See Achurch. Chaucer, 221. Chesterton, Gilbert K., 9, 190, 202, 354, 413, 415, 435, 436, 453, 472, 489, 496, 503, 508-9. Chopin, 23, 25. Christian Socialist, The, 47. Chubb, Percival, 102. Civic and Dramatic Guild, 402. Clarion, The, 385, 390, 422. Clarke, M.A., William, 100 et sqq.; his The Fabian Society, 111, 129, 136. Clerk, The, 22. Cobden, Richard, 168. Coburn, Alvin L., 224 et sqq., 496, 501 et sqq. Collier and Son, P. F., 498-9. Colvin, Sidney, 53. Comedy Theatre, 295. Common Sense of Municipal Trading, The. See G. B. Shaw. Common, Thomas, 485. Comte, Auguste, 102, 168. Constable and Co., Archibald, 55, 183, 399. Contemporary Review, 183, 385. Corbett, James J., 72. Corbin, John, 319, 321, 344, 373. Correggio, 221. Courtney, W. L., 63, 80, 81, 177, 286. Court Theatre, 277, 285, 286, 324, 345, 368-9, 371-2, 388, 402. Cowen, Sir Fred, 237. Crane, Walter, his An Artist's Reminiscences, 112. Crawford, Rev. William, 16. Criterion Theatre, 295. Cunningham, Edward, 158. Cunningham, W., 159. Daily Chronicle, The, 100, 164, 212, 248, 305, 312, 331. Daily News, The, 75, 91, 419. Daly, Arnold, 315, 326, 346. D'Annunzio, Gabriel, 416, 419. Dark Lady of the Sonnets, The. See G. B. Shaw. Darwin, Charles, 92, 94, 96, 102, 123, 153, 261, 476, 483; his Descent of Man, 97. Davidson, Thomas, 102-4, 173. Davis, 114. Day, Holland, 228. Delaroche, Paul, 200, 224. Delia Robbia, 221. Demachy, 228. De Quincey, Thomas, 51, 153, 161, 359, 503. De Reszke, Édouard, 238, 445. De Reszke, Jean, 238, 245, 445. Devil's Disciple, The. See G. B. Shaw. Dialectical Society, 92-3, 271. Dickens, Charles, 41, 253, 361, 416, 443, 473. Die Zeit, 165. Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 98, 124, 144, 205, 262. Doctor's Dilemma, The. See G. B. Shaw. Dolmetsch, Arnold, 237. Donald, 114. Donatello, 221. Don Giovanni, 18, 23. Donisthorpe, Wordsworth, 114, 125. Donizetti, 18, 23. Don Juan in Hell. See G. B. Shaw. Dramatic Opinions and Essays. See G. B. Shaw. Dryden, John, 476. Drysdale, Dr., 93. Dublin, Shaw born at, 3; Shaw's early life in, 3 et sqq. Dumas, Alexandre, 61, 67. Dumas, Alexandre fils, 413. Düsel, Friedrich, 337. Dvorak, 241. Echo, The, 231. Economic Club, The, 158. Economic Journal, The, 158. Edgeworth, F. Y., 158-9. Edison, Thomas A., 44. Edward VII., 311, 372. Edwards, Clement, 142. Edwards, Osmon, 270. Eliot, George, 92, 94, 96, 305. Ellis, Alexander, 91. Ellis, Ashton, 393. Ellis, Havelock, 102. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 3, 439. Engel, Louis, 235. Engels, Friedrich, 106, 163, 167, 181. English Illustrated Magazine, 244. English Land Restoration League, The, 47, 99. Fabian Essays in Socialism. See G. B. Shaw. Fabian Society, The, 39, 47, 52, 56, 89 et sqq., 173 et sqq., 231, 280. Faguet, Émile, 84, 250. Farr, Florence, 329, 504. Faust, 18. Fellowship of the New Life, The. See The Fabian Society. Figaro, Le, 348. Filon, Augustin, 300, 336, 344-5, 367, 445, 449. Fitzgerald, C. L., 111. Fontenelle, 416. Foote, G. W., 114, 131, 138 et sqq., 482. Ford, Rev. F. W., 125. Fortnightly Review, The, 24, 60, 187. Foxwell, 158-9. France, Anatole, 144, 449, 502-3. Freethinker, The, 482. Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 51. Frost, Percy, 155-6. Funk and Wagnalls Co., 268. Furniss, Harry, 327. Furnival, Dr. F. J., 135. Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, 402. Galsworthy, John, 372. Galton, Sir Francis, F.R.S., 492. Garcke, Emil, 91. Garland, Hamlin, 152. Garrick, David, 196. Garrick Theatre, 295. George, Henry, 47-8, 50, 56, 90, 117, 153 et sqq., 176, 178; his Progress and Poverty, 94, 96, 102, 152, 154-5, 178. George, Henry, Jr., 95, 152. George, Right Hon. Lloyd, 175. Gerster, 239. Gestalten und Gedanken, 313. Getting Married. See G. B. Shaw. Gibson, Dr. Burns, 102, 104. Gilbert, Sir W. S., 237, 303, 316 et sqq., 433, 456 et sqq.; his Palace of Truth, 318 et sqq. Gissing, George, 415. Godard, J. G., 91. Goethe, 23, 306, 364, 412, 434. Goncourt, Edmond de, 440. Gonner, E. C. K., 135. Gordon, General, 312. Gorki, Maxim, 432. Gounod, 18, 24. Graham, Cunninghame, 113, 306, 314, 328. Grant, Corrie, 125. Great Thoughts, 480. Greene, Robert, 264. Greenwood, Frederick, 200. Gregory, Lady, 400. Grein, J. T., 293, 295, 309, 321, 358. Greuze, 228. Greville, Eden, 293. Grove, Sir George, 236. Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre, 161. Grundy, Sydney, 282, 284. Guèsde, 152, 166, 180. Guilbert, Yvette, 345. Gurly, Lucinda Elizabeth. See Mrs. G. C. Shaw. Gurly, Walter Bagenal, 7. Hadden, Caroline, 104. Hagemann, Herr Carl, 410. Haldane, Right Hon. R. B., 132 et sqq. Hale, Professor, 426. Hall, Andrew, 113. Hals, Franz, 227. Hamon, Auguste, 165, 309-10, 353, 439. Hampstead Historic Club, 128 et sqq., 157. Handel, 18, 23, 233, 257. Hankin, St. John, 372. Hapgood, Norman, 325, 411. Hardie, Keir, 187. Hardy, Thomas, 55, 368. Hare, Sir John, 282. Harper and Brothers, 54-5. Harper's Bazaar, 85. Harris, Frank, 261, 266. Harris, Sir Augustus, 216, 245, 278, 287. Hart, Sir Robert, 16. Hauptmann, Gerhart, 413, 464. Hausemann, William A., 340, 456, 486. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 25. Hay, John, 189. Haydn, 36. Haymarket Theatre, 321. Headlam, Rev. Stewart, 48, 114. Hebbel Theater, 301. Heine, Heinrich, 3, 47, 201, 413, 457. Helmholtz, Hermann Von, 44. Henderson, Archibald, 484. Henley, W. E., 53, 212, 214 et sqq., 282. Henry and Co., 205, 298. Hensley, Lewis, his The Scholar's Algebra, 158. Herwegh, Georg, 51. Hibbert Journal, 471. Hichens, Robert, 261. Hinton, Horsley, 228. Hinton, Mrs., 104. Hodgskin, 155. Hodgson, R., 127. Hogarth, William, 227-8, 422, 473. Holbein, 227. Hollman, 239. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, his Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 89. Hooghe, Peter de, 224. Hope, Laurence, 392. Hoppner, John, 228. Horniman, Miss, 401. How He Lied to Her Husband. See G. B. Shaw. Hudson Theatre, 365. Hughes, 114. Hugo, Victor, 23, 59, 250, 432, 434, 443. Humanitarian League, The, 49. Humanitarian, The, 435. Huneker, James G., 84-5, 246, 275, 350, 366, 375, 418. Huxley, Thomas, 92, 94, 96-7, 443, 476-7. Hyndman, H. M., 98, 110, 112-3, 127, 138, 152, 156-7, 159, 160, 164-5, 167 et sqq., 173-4, 200, 206, 302, 368; his Economics of Socialism, 162; his Marx's Theory of Value, 164-5. Ibsen, Henrik, 14, 25, 39, 59, 90, 143, 198, 237, 247, 299 et sqq., 415, 432, 447, 455, 460, 471, 480; Shaw compared to, 61-2, 304, 316, 420 et sqq., 458; his Love's Comedy, 78, 347; his Little Eyolf, 81; his The Master Builder, 81; the controversy on, 248-9; Shaw's championship of, 263, 272 et sqq., 305, 389-90; his mission, 269; Shaw's admiration for, 270; his A Doll's House, 271, 274, 299, 314, 338, 433, 439; his Peer Gynt, 273; his Emperor and Galilean, 273, 460; his The Pillars of Society, 271, 274; his An Enemy of the People, 274, 297, 439, 456-7; his Ghosts, 274, 296, 305, 307; his The Wild Duck, 274; his Rosmersholm, 274; his The Lady from the Sea, 274, 347; his Hedda Gabler, 274; criticized by Shaw, 303; his death, 389; and stage directions, 417-18. Immaturity. See G. B. Shaw. Independent Theatre Society, 293, 295, 309, 321. Ingersoll, Robert G., 92. Ingres, Jean, 219. Interlude at the Playhouse, The. See G. B. Shaw. Ireland, its irreligion, 8-9; National Gallery of, 19, 31; land agency in, 21; described in John Bull's Other Island, 372 et sqq. Irish National Theatre Society, 401. Irish Times, The, 400. Irrational Knot, The. See G. B. Shaw. Irving, Sir Henry, 216, 287 et sqq. Irwin, Will, 270. Jackson, Holbrook, 11, 175, 447. James, Henry, 64, 284, 394, 416, 454. James, S. T., 259. Jaurès, Jean, 144, 152, 166, 180, 186, 486. Jefferies, Richard, 51. Jevons, Stanley, 155-6, 159 et sqq.; his Letters and Journal, 160; his Theory of Political Economy, 161. Joachim, Joseph, 240-1. John Bull's Other Island. See G. B. Shaw. Johnson, Dr., 479. Jones, Benjamin, 132. Jones, Henry Arthur, 210, 257, 263, 282 et sqq. Jonson, Ben, 264, 266. Journal des Débats, 350. Jowett, Benjamin, 262. Joynes, James Leigh, 48, 50-1, 90, 94, 155. Jupp, W. I., 104. Justice, 164-5. Kaulbach, Wilhelm von, 200, 224. Keats, John, 40, 215. Kerr, Alfred, 340, 438. Kingsway Theatre, The, 402, 403. Knight, William, his Memorials of Thomas Davidson, 104. Knowles, Sheridan, 415. Kropotkin, Prince, 98, 108, 152, 170, 173. Lamarck, Jean, 480, 483-4, 488. Lamb, Charles, 6, 266, 447. Land Nationalization Society, 95. Land Reform Union. See English Land Restoration League. Lane, John, 270. Lane, Joseph, 114. Lassalle, Ferdinand, 98, 127, 152, 165, 168, 173, 176, 178, 271, 457. “Law and Liberty League,” 113. Lecky, James, 90 et sqq., 122, 235. Leeds Art Club, 175. Lee, George J. V., 17-8, 22, 37. Le Gallienne, Richard, 232. Leighton, Sir Frederick, 219. Leschetizky, 239. Le Temps, 277. Levy, 131. Lewes, George H., 201, 233. Liberty, 189, 246. Liebknecht, Wilhelm, 98, 152, 166, 172-3, 180-1. Lind, Letty, 254. Linnell, John, 228. Lippi, Fra Filippo, 221. Liszt, Abbé, 23, 257. Lodge, Sir Oliver, 385. Lohengrin, 35. London Stage Society, 380. Longfellow, Henry W., 24. Loraine, Robert, 43, 302, 315, 368. Love Among the Artists. See G. B. Shaw. Lucrezia Borgia, 18. Luther, Martin, 469-70. Lyceum Theatre, 282, 343. Lytton, Hon. Neville S., 501. Lytton, Lord, 297. Macaulay, Thomas B., 199. MacCarthy, Desmond, 324, 339. McClure's Magazine, 329. Macdonald, J., 111. McEvoy, Charles, 380. McKail, J. W., 212. McKee, Rev. T. A., 16. Mackenzie, Sir Alexander, 236. Macmillan Co., The, 340, 456. McNulty, Edward, 34; his Misther O'Ryan, The Son of a Peasant and Maureen, 33. Maeterlinck, Maurice, 134, 224, 368, 415, 463-4. Mainly About People, 1. Mallock, W. H., 59, 60, 186-7. Malthus, Thomas R., 92-3, 168. Man and Superman. See G. B. Shaw. Mann, Tom, 113. Man of Destiny, The. See G. B. Shaw. Mansfield, Richard, 54, 315, 342-3, 355, 358. Mantegna, 46, 225, 227. Marbot, his Memoirs, 312. Maris, James, 222. Marlowe, Christopher, 264. Marshall, Alfred, 158. Marston, John, 264. Marx, Eleanor, 261, 272. Marx, Karl, 50, 79, 90, 128, 151-2, 159, 173, 176, 178, 181, 261, 271, 457; his Das Kapital, 96 et sqq., 106, 155 et sqq., 160 et sqq., 293. Masefield, John, 372. Massenet, Jules, 245. Massingham, H. W., 231. Mathews, Charles, 317. Matthews, Brander, 416. Maude, Aylmer, his Life of Tolstoy, 399. Maude, Cyril, 321, 328. Maupassant, Guy de, 304-5, 316. Melba, Mme., 24. Mendelssohn, Felix, 18, 24, 233, 243. Menger, Anton, 161. Meredith, George, 46-47, 77, 201, 278, 461, 471, 509; his Essay on Comedy, 278. Merimée, Prosper, 24. Methuen and Co., 112. Metropolitan Magazine, 227, 351. Meyerbeer, 24, 243. Meyerfeld, Dr. Max, 43, 426. Millerand, 166. Mill, John Stuart, 91-2, 94, 96, 102, 123, 153, 157, 466. Milton, John, 139. Mirabeau, 339. Misalliance. See G. B. Shaw. Modern Press, The, 155. Moffat, Yard and Co., 343. Molière, 23, 130, 270, 278, 306, 320, 361, 364, 370, 378, 394, 439, 443, 449. Mommsen, Theodor, 335. Monet, Claude, 222. Moody and Sankey, 10-11, 27, 33. Moore, George, 202. Moore, Samuel, 160. Moore, Thomas, 243. Morning Leader, 91. Morris, May, 261. Morris, William, 90, 98, 152, 173, 261, 271, 434, 457, 473; makes Shaw's acquaintance, 52; and Cashel Byron's Profession, 74; on parents and children, 92; his influence on Shaw, 99, 205; and the Fabian Society, 114-5; and the Socialist League, 137; and the value theory, 164; Shaw's ignorance of, 206; his Socialist views, 207; Shaw's obituary notice of, 209, 212; his artistic integrity, 210-11; his mastery of English, 221; and Shaw's article on Nordau, 246. Mozart, 18, 24, 32, 36, 90, 214, 218, 240, 243-4, 248-9, 257, 364, 393. Munsey's Magazine, 293. Muret, M. Maurice, 349-50. Nansen, Fridtjof, 504. Napier, Dr. T. B., 125. Napoleon, 342 et sqq., 508. Napoleon III., 93. Nation, 250, 287, 401. National Observer, 214. National Reformer, 160, 164. National Secular Society, 114, 160. National Service League, 405. Nesbit, E. See Mrs. H. Bland. Neue Freie Presse, 287, 343. New Age, The, 175, 246, 396. Newman, Ernest, 249. Newman, Professor F. W., 95. New Review, The, 313, 462. New Shakespeare Society, 135, 263. New York Herald, 54. New York Sun, 373. New York Times, 342, 361, 393. New York Tribune, 317. Nicol, Commissioner, 387. Nietzsche, 20, 39, 81, 90, 151, 247, 261, 273, 339, 413, 455 et sqq., 464, 468, 471 et sqq., 480, 484 et sqq.; his Genealogy of Morals, 340, 364, 456, 486. Nineteenth Century, 246, 439. Nordau, Max, 35, 346, 436. North American Review, 286-7. O'Connor, Fergus, 173. O'Connor, T. P., 231, 232, 235-6. Offenbach, 233, 243, 340. Olivier, Sir Sydney, 48, 99, 107, 128-9, 174; his play, Mrs. Maxwell's Marriage, 100; his career, 100. One and All, 43. Orage, A. R., 175. Ouida, 392. Our Corner, 52, 109, 195. Owen, Miss Dale, 104. Owen, Robert, 178, 209. Paderewski, I. J., 237-8, 254. Pall Mall Budget, 244. Pall Mall Gazette, 48, 50-1, 98, 127, 135, 160, 164-5, 195-6, 200, 215, 483. Palmist and Chirological Review, 493. Pankhurst, Dr., 114. Pardon, Sidney, 261. Parker, Dr. H. R., 16. Parnell, Charles Stewart, 101. Parry, Sir Charles H. H., 236-7. Passion, Poison and Petrifaction. See G. B. Shaw. Pater, Walter, 433, 438. Patmore, Coventry, 445. Patti, Adelina, 237, 239, 254. Pease, Edward R., 102, 104, 127, 139. Pepys, Samuel, 45. Phelps, William L., 366. Philanderer, The. See G. B. Shaw. Photography, 222. Pinero, Arthur Wing, 3, 279 et sqq., 364, 447. Plançon, P., 24. Play, The, 335, 338. Playhouse, The, 327. Plays for Puritans. See G. B. Shaw. Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant. See G. B. Shaw. Podmore, Frank, 102, 104, 114, 127, 177. Poe, Edgar Allan, 5, 24, 130. Pope, Alexander, 59, 243. Porter, General Horace, 312. Praxiteles, 32. Proudhon, P. J., 128, 186. Psychical Research Society, The, 127. Public Opinion, 11, 33. Putnam's Monthly, 501. Queensberry, Marquess of, 387. Quintessence of Ibsenism. See G. B. Shaw. Rabelais, 201, 509. Radical, The, 132. Raphael, 208, 221, 224. Reade, Charles, 432-3. Reclus, Elisée, 486. Reinhardt, Max, 345. Rembrandt, 227, 393. Renan, Ernest, 449. Repertory Theatre, 285. Review of Reviews (London), 386. Revue des Deux Mondes, 300, 445. Rhodes, Cecil, 385. Ricardo, David, 155, 159, 161. Richards, Grant, 55, 309, 319, 321. Robertson, Forbes, 282, 335, 338, 402, 417. Robertson, John Mackinnon, 45, 114. Robins, Elizabeth, 372. Rockefeller, John D., 384. Rodin, Auguste, 226, 500-1, 504. Roeckel, August, 247. Rogers, Professor A. K., 471. Rook, Clarence, 141, 198, 335. Roosevelt, Theodore, 384, 484. Rossetti, D. G., 219, 446. Rossini, 18. Rossiter, 115. Rostand, Edmond, 432. Rousseau, J. J., 5. Runciman, James, 214. Runciman, J. F., 214. Ruskin, John, 7, 168, 210-11, 253, 271, 434, 451, 457. Sainte Beuve, Charles A., 251, 297, 474. Saint Saëns, Camille, 241, 243. St. Simon, Claude H., Comte de, 178. Salt, Henry, 48 et sqq., 90, 503. Sanders, W., 184. Sargent, J. S., 227, 449. Saturday Review, The, 53, 181, 199, 208-9, 212, 220-1, 231, 245, 261 et sqq., 266, 269, 272, 275, 279, 288, 364, 421, 427-9, 455. Savoy Magazine, The, 14. Savoy Theatre, 285, 337, 388. Scheffer, Ary, 24. Schiller, Friedrich, 23, 432, 454. Schiller Theater, 355. Schopenhauer, 81, 271, 364, 366, 435, 457, 459, 473-4, 476, 480, 483 et sqq. Schumann, 23, 240, 243, 252. Scott and Co., Walter, 53, 179. Scott, Clement, 279, 299, 302. Scott, Sir Walter, 61, 67. Scribner's Sons, Charles, 343. Sedgwick, Anne D., her Confounding of Camellia, 367. Shakespeare, William, 26, 55, 74, 81, 135, 196, 341, 391, 417, 447, 473, 476; his plays criticized by Shaw, 262 et sqq., 288, 321; Shaw's preface on, 336. Shaw, Agnes, 22, 25. Shaw, Frederick, 10. Shaw, George Bernard, his birth, 3; his complex characteristics, 4; on autobiographies, 5-6; his parentage and ancestry, 6 et sqq.; his early life, 8 et sqq., 39; on church going, 8-9, 11-12 et sqq.; enters his uncle's office, 10; on Moody and Sankey, 10-11, 27, 33; his dislike of snobbery, 14-5, 21, 35, 41; his education, 15 et sqq.; his great love of music, 18-9, 22 et sqq., 36-7, 216; his early love of art, 19; enters Mr. Townshend's office, 20; his original musical technique, 23, 218; goes to London, 25; his religious training, 26; his asceticism, 26-7; choosing a profession, 31 et sqq.; his friendship with Edward McNulty, 33-4; and Chichester Bell, 34-35, 44; first introduction to Wagner's music, 35, 234; his resemblance to his mother, 38-9; his struggles in London, 39 et sqq.; his dress, 40-1, 491-2; on poverty, 41-2, 46; on the artistic temperament, 43; first literary earnings, 43, 47; his egotism, 44-5; his Immaturity, 46-7; and land nationalization, 47-8; makes new friends, 47 et sqq.; his vegetarianism, 49, 471; and the Salts, 48 et sqq.; on Shelley and Wagner's principles, 49-50; and the death of J. L. Joynes, 50-51; publication of his novels, 51 et sqq.; becomes acquainted with William Morris, 52; on Cashel Byron's Profession, 52; his Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant, published, 54; his plays, Arms and the Man and The Devil's Disciple, produced, 54; on American publishing, 54 et sqq.; on novel-writing, 59, 60; Stevenson on, 61; and Ibsen, 61-2, 297 et sqq., 316, 420 et sqq.; his The Irrational Knot, 62 et sqq.; his Love Among the Artists, 65 et sqq.; his Cashel Byron's Profession, 69, 71 et sqq.; on the education of children, 70-1; his The Admirable Bashville, 74 et sqq.; his An Unsocial Socialist, 77 et sqq.; his attitude towards women, 80 et sqq.; as a novelist, 83 et sqq.; his versatility, 89, 409, 424; various influences on, 90, 99, 100; his friendship with Lecky, 90 et sqq.; studies phonetics, 91; joins the Zetetical Society, 92-3; joins the Dialectical Society, 93; on Sidney Webb, 93; practices public speaking, 94; his admiration for Henry George, 96; studies Marx, 97-8; and the Darwinian School, 97; an enthusiastic Socialist, 98 et sqq., 385; and William Clarke, 100-1; and the Fabian Society, 102 et sqq., 173 et sqq., 279-80, 385; Sidney Webb's great influence on, 106-7, 125-7; his powers of oratory, 121 et sqq., 412, 505-6; his early training for public speaking, 121 et sqq.; and the Hampstead Historic Club, 128 et sqq.; his love of debating, 130-1, 135; and Mr. Haldane, 133-4; and literary societies, 135; his strenuous work, 136-7; and Bradlaugh, 138; debates with G. W. Foote, 138 et sqq.; his independent attitude, 140-1; his appearance, 145, 338; his Socialistic philosophy, 151 et sqq., 188 et sqq.; his letter to Hamlin Garland, 152; influence of Henry George on, 153 et sqq.; studies economics, 155 et sqq.; and Wicksteed, Jevons and Marx, 155 et sqq.; attends International Socialist Congress at Zurich, 171; as a Vestryman and Borough Councillor, 181 et sqq.; on municipal trading, 182-3; invited to stand for Battersea, 184-5; his career as an art critic, 193 et sqq.; his criticism of the Taming of the Shrew, 196-7; and the New Journalism, 199; compared to Heine and Meredith, 201; his affected levity, 201 et sqq.; compared with Whistler, 204; his opinion of criticism, 205; William Morris's influence on, 205, 208, 211; Morris's appreciation of, 208; his obituary of Morris, 209 et sqq.; his integrity as an art critic, 212-13; becomes a musical critic, 212; and Henley, 214 et sqq.; his admiration for Michelangelo, 218-9; and Madox Brown, 219-20; and the Impressionists, 221; and the Dutch school, 222; and photography, 222 et sqq.; photographed by A. L. Coburn, 225 et sqq.; as a music critic, 231 et sqq.; on the staff of the Star, 231 et sqq.; his nom-de-plume of Corno di Bassetto, 232 et sqq.; on Offenbach, 233, 243; his admiration for Wagner, 235; on some modern composers, 236 et sqq.; on Paderewski, 238; on Patti and Bispham, 238-9; on Hollman, Essipoff, Joachim and Ysaye, 239, 240; on Mozart, 240; on Saint Saëns and Meyerbeer, 243; on Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms, 243; his championship of Wagner, 243 et sqq.; his Bayreuth criticisms, 244; on Covent Garden Opera, 244-5; on Strauss' Elektra, 249-50; his attitude as a critic, 251 et sqq.; dramatic critic on the Saturday Review, 261 et sqq.; his aim as dramatic critic, 262, 427; on Shakespeare, 263 et sqq.; on modern problems, 271; champions Ibsen, 272 et sqq.; on Church and Stage, 276-7; on comedy, 278 et sqq.; leading critics on, 279 et sqq.; on Pinero, 282 et sqq.; on some modern playwrights, 283; on Irving and Ellen Terry, 287-8; his income from journalism, 288; as a playwright, 293 et sqq.; his first play produced, 293 et sqq.; Archer's article on, 293 et sqq.; and the writing of Mrs. Warren's Profession, 305-6; his new phase as a dramatist, 309 et sqq.; and W. S. Gilbert, 316 et sqq.; and Cyril Maude, 321-2, 327-8; and Arnold Daly, 326-7; and Ellen Terry, 328 et sqq., 343; and Richard Mansfield, 342-3; Sir Charles Wyndham on, 346; Dr. Brandes on, 347; and William Terriss, 354; William Archer's admiration for, 363, 378; and the modern drama, 363 et sqq., 413 et sqq.; his magnum opus, 370 et sqq.; Walkley's criticism on, 374, 460-1; and politics at the theatre, 388; and the plot of the Doctor's Dilemma, 391 et sqq.; his letter to Tolstoy, 399; as a technician, 409 et sqq.; his world-wide reputation, 409-10; his prefaces, 413; his descriptive powers, 414; and stage directions, 417 et sqq.; his defects, 424-5; a résumé of his plays, 425-6, 448-9; as a dramatist, 431 et sqq.; and the problem play, 433 et sqq.; G. K. Chesterton on, 436; on illusions, 436 et sqq.; philosophy of his plays, 439 et sqq., 481; as artist and philosopher, 453 et sqq.; on Schopenhauer, 459; his optimism, 459 et sqq.; on self-knowledge, 467 et sqq.; and science, 477; on vivisection, 478-9; on progress, 480; his atheism, 482; his religion, 484; alleged influences on, 484 et sqq.; Sir Francis Galton's anthropometric chart, 492-3; his characteristics, 494-5, 501 et sqq.; as he is to-day, 495; his prize story, 498-9; foreign critics on, 500-1; his marriage, 503; his energy, 503; as a conversationist, 504; his Puritanism, 508-9; his kindness of heart, 509-10; on marriage, 511-12. Shaw, G. B., his works:— Cashel Byron's Profession, 32, 51 et sqq., 61, 71 et sqq., 205, 304, 381, 451, 478. Common Sense of Municipal Trading, The, 183. Dramatic Opinions and Essays, 208, 276, 285. Fabian Essays in Socialism, 178. Immaturity (Unpublished), 46-7. Irrational Knot, The, 45, 52, 55, 62 et sqq. Love Among the Artists, 52, 54, 67 et sqq., 85, 235. Perfect Wagnerite, The, 247. Quintessence of Ibsenism, 138, 272-3, 299, 413, 480, 484. Unsocial Socialist, An, 51, 54, 77, 81-2, 206, 222. Shaw, G. B., Pamphlets, Articles, etc.:— Aërial Football (Collier's Weekly), 498. Author to the Dramatic Critics (Widowers' Houses), 205. Author's View, The (Caxton Magazine), 211. Authors of the Court Theatre, The, 446. Blaming the Bard (Saturday Review), 269. Bluffing the Value Theory, 164-5. Censorship of Plays (The Nation), 287. Censorship of the Stage in England (North American Review), 286-7. Class War, The (Clarion), 167-8. Coburn the Camerist (Metropolitan Magazine), 227. Conflict Between Science and Common Sense, 51, 477. Darwin Denounced (Pall Mall Gazette), 483. Das Kapital (National Reformer), 160. Degenerate's View of Nordau, A, 465, 471. De Mortuis (Saturday Review), 245. Diabolonian Ethics, On (Three Plays for Puritans), 119, 355. Does Modern Education Ennoble? (Great Thoughts), 481. Dramatic Realist to His Critics (New Review), 313, 462. Elektra of Strauss and Hoffmansthal (Nation), 250. Ellen Terry (Neue Freie Presse), 343. Exhibitions, The (Amateur Photographer), 226, 228. Fabian Essays, 109, 116, 136. Fabian Society Tracts, The, 87, 105 et sqq., 110, 111, 115, 131, 171, 174, 177, 183, 207-8, 385. Failures of Inept Vegetarians (Pall Mall Gazette), 50. Fitzthunder, My Friend (To-Day), 169. Fitzthunder on Himself (To-Day), 169. Giving the Devil His Due (Saturday Review), 455. Haymarket Theatre, The (Chap. XIV.), 321. Ibsen (The Clarion), 390, 422. Illusions of Socialism, The, 165, 188. Impossibilities of Anarchism, The, 171. In the Days of Our Youth (Star), 234. King Arthur (Saturday Review), 221. Life of Madame Blavatsky, A (Pall Mall Gazette), 127, 195. Madox Brown, Watts and Ibsen (Saturday Review), 220. Marx and Modern Socialism (Pall Mall Gazette), 165. Meredith on Comedy (Saturday Review), 278-9, 429. Morris as Actor and Dramatist (Saturday Review), 208. Music (The World), 239, 257. Notes on the Clarendon Press Rules for Compositors and Readers (The Author), 91. On Going to Church (Savoy Magazine), 14. On Mr. Mallock's Proposed Trumpet Performance (Fortnightly Review), 60, 187. Our Saturday Talk (Westminster Gazette), 442. Phonetic Spelling; a Reply to Some Criticisms (Morning Leader), 91. Plea for Speech Nationalization, A (Morning Leader), 91. Prefaces:— Author's Apology (Dramatic Opinions and Essays), 276. Author's Apology (Mrs. Warren's Profession), 286, 309, 435. Better than Shakespeare? (Three Plays for Puritans), 336, 364. First Aid to Critics (Major Barbara), 486. Mainly About Myself (Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant), 309, 411, 438. Problem Play (Humanitarian), 435. Religion of the Pianoforte, The (Fortnightly Review), 24, 50. Sanity of Art, The, An Exposure of the Current Nonsense About Artists Being Degenerate, 246, 396. Scotland Yard for Spectres, A (Pall Mall Gazette), 127. Shakespeare's Merry Gentlemen (Saturday Review), 266. Shaw, Bernard, 489. Shaw Abashed, Bernard (Daily News), 75. Shaw, George Bernard: A Conversation (The Tatler), 374. Shaw and the Heroic Actor, Bernard (The Play), 335, 338. Shaw as a Clerk, Bernard (The Clerk), 22. Shaw, Letter from Mr. G. Bernard (Tolstoy on Shakespeare), 268. Shaw's Method and Secret, Mr. (Daily Chronicle), 305. Shaw's Works of Fiction, Mr. Bernard (Novel Review), 80. Socialism and Republicanism (Saturday Review), 181. Socialism at the International Congress, 190. Socialism for Millionaires (Contemporary Review), 183, 385. Socialists at Home (Pall Mall Gazette), 165. Solution of the Censorship Problem (Academy), 287. Spelling Reform v. Phonetic Spelling (Daily News), 91. Stanley Jevons: His Letters and Journal (Pall Mall Gazette), 160, 195. Sunday on the Surrey Hills (Pall Mall Gazette), 48. Theatrical World (Archer's), 315. Transition to Social Democracy, 208. Valedictory (Saturday Review), 288. Who I Am, and What I Think (Candid Friend), 42, 60, 98, 147, 202. A Word About Stepniak (To-Morrow), 313. A Word More About Verdi (Anglo-Saxon Review), 241. Shaw, G. B., his plays:— Admirable Bashville, The, or Constancy Unrewarded, 74 et sqq. Arms and the Man, 54, 142, 311, 313 et sqq., 320, 359, 404, 422, 425, 458. Cæsar and Cleopatra, 335 et sqq., 340. Candida, 54, 85, 326, 341, 346 et sqq., 409-10, 418. Captain Brassbound's Conversion, 91, 288, 320, 328 et sqq. Dark Lady of the Sonnets, 398. Devil's Disciple, The, 54, 288, 328, 341, 354 et seq., 401, 419, 422-3, 425, 438, 458. Doctor's Dilemma, The, 389 et sqq., 422-3, 425. Don Juan in Hell (Man and Superman), 369 et sqq. Getting Married, 398. How He Lied to Her Husband, 320, 326. Interlude at the Playhouse, The, 327. John Bull's Other Island, 15-16, 34, 370 et sqq., 388, 425. Major Barbara, 297, 337, 380, 381, 382, 384 et sqq., 401, 425, 486. Man and Superman, 27, 81-2, 152, 363 et sqq., 368, 378, 388, 414, 444, 458, 471, 481, 489, 509. Man of Destiny, The, 341 et sqq., 374. Misalliance, 398. Passion, Poison and Petrifaction; or the Fatal Gazogene, 327. Philanderer, The, 51, 299 et sqq., 422, 425, 478. Plays for Puritans, 27, 119, 193, 328, 333, 336, 364, 407. Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant, 49, 54, 288, 291, 309, 411. Press Cuttings, 402, 404. Showing-up of Blanco Posnet, 27, 398 et sqq. Warren's Profession, Mrs., 220, 286, 304 et sqq., 341, 363, 380 et sqq., 398, 425, 458, 509. Widowers' Houses, 22, 205, 220, 270, 293 et sqq., 420, 425, 445. You Never Can Tell, 320, 321 et sqq., 404, 414, 425. Shaw, G. B., Books and Articles on:— Archer, William, Shaw's Phonetic World-English, 91; About the Theatre, 390; Shaw on Stage Directions, 419; Article in The World, 295. Bab, Julius, Bernard Shaw, 249. Bahr, Hermann, Bernard Shaw, 424. Brandes, Georg, Der Dramatiker Bernard Shaw, 313. Chesterton, G. K., The Meaning of Mr. Bernard Shaw, 436. Corbin, John, Bernard Shaw and His Mannikins, 373. Filon, Augustin, M. Bernard Shaw et son Théâtre, 300, 445. Greville, Eden, Bernard Shaw and His Plays, 293. Hale, E. E., Jr., Dramatists of To-Day (Bernard Shaw), 426. Hamon, Auguste, Un Nouveau Molière, 439. Henderson, Archibald, The Philosophy of Bernard Shaw, 484. Huneker, James, Bernard Shaw and Woman, 84-5; The Truth About Candida, 351. Irwin, Will, Crankidoxology, Being a Mental Attitude from Bernard Pshaw, 270. Jackson, Holbrook, Bernard Shaw, 183. Play, The, Bernard Shaw and the Heroic Actor, 335, 338. Rogers, Professor A. K., Mr. Bernard Shaw's Philosophy, 471. Rook, Clarence, Mr. Shaw's Future, 335. Stead, W. T., Impressions of the Theatre (Major Barbara), 386. Terry, Ellen, From Lewis Carroll to Bernard Shaw, 329. Walkley, A. B., Mr. Bernard Shaw's Plays, 319. Shaw, Mrs. G. B., 388-9, 401, 495. Shaw, George Carr (G. B. Shaw's father), 6 et sqq., 20, 22. Shaw, Mrs. George Carr (G. B. Shaw's mother), 7, 8, 17; her musical talent, 17 et sqq., 22, 36 et sqq. Shaw, Lucy Carr, 22, 26. Shaw, Sir Robert, 33. Shelley, P. B., 32, 40, 48 et sqq., 90, 92, 152-3, 215, 234, 271, 273, 346, 412, 434, 457, 473, 480, 482, 503. Shelley Society, 135. Sheridan, Richard B., 3, 40, 433. Shields, Frederick, 220. Shorter, Clement K., 232. Showing-up of Blanco Posnet. See G. B. Shaw. Sims, George R., 43. Smith, Adam, 155. Smith, Armitage, 158. Social Democratic Federation, 96, 102, 108, 110 et sqq., 138, 173, 206. Socialist League, 137-8, 207, 261. Socialist Society, Hammersmith, 207. Sozialistische Monatshefte, 165. Speaker, The, 107. Spectator, The, 401, 486. Spencer, Herbert, 92, 94, 96-7, 102, 168, 443, 467; his The Coming Slavery, 189. Standard Elocutionist, The, 34. Standard, The, 393. Standring, G., 132, 139. Stanford, Sir Charles V., 237. Stange, Stanislaus, 72, 315. Stapleton, 114. Star, The, 113, 171, 231 et sqq., 237, 295, 387. Stead, W. T., 112-3, 215, 386-7. Steichen, Éduard J., 225. Stephens, Yorke, 312. Stevenson, R. L., 85, 241; letters of, 53, 61, 73, 215-16, 282, 297. Stirner, Max, his The Ego and His Own, 468, 472, 484 et sqq. Stone and Co., H. S., 54, 309. Straus, Oscar, 314, 315. Strauss, Richard, his Elektra, 250. Strindberg, August, 316, 366, 484 et sqq. Stuart-Glennie, J. S., 114, 431, 485-6. Stümcke, Herr Heinrich, 340, 438. Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 237. Sweet, Henry, 91, 331. Swift, Jonathan, 3, 60, 476. Swinburne, Algernon C., 266, 447, 455. Symes, Rev. —, 48. Symons, Arthur, 237, 240, 473. Taine, Hippolyte, 266. Taming of the Shrew, The, 196-7. Tarpey, W. K., 346. Tatler, The, 377. Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 8, 24; his Charge of the Light Brigade, 312. Terriss, William, 354. Terry, Ellen, 287-8, 328 et sqq., 342-3. Théâtre des Arts, 348-9. Théâtre Royal du Parc, 353. Thomas, Agnes, 405. Thomas, Goring, his Golden Web, 237. Thomson, James, 51. Thoreau, 50. Thorpe, Courtenay, 354. Thorwaldsen, Bertel, 221. Times, The, 94, 187, 232, 287, 400, 486. Titian, 200. Tochatti, 114. To-Day, 51 et sqq., 114, 155-6, 158, 165, 206. Tolstoy, Leo, 145, 168, 173, 268, 398-9, 401, 413, 464, 473. Tourneur, Cyril, 264. Townshend, Uniacke, 10, 20, 33-4. Traill, H. D., 199. Trebitsch, Herr Siegfried, 420. Tree, Sir H. Beerbohm, 282, 288, 398. Treherne and Co., A., 327. Tribune, The, 390, 391. Trollope, Anthony, 39, 41. Trovatore, Il, 18, 24. Truth, 195. Tucker, Benjamin R., 189, 245-6, 396, 468. Turner, J. M. W., 210-11, 473. Twain, Mark, 10, 38, 413, 440, 456, 508. Tyndall, Professor, 35, 44, 94, 96, 153. Unsocial Socialist, The. See G. B. Shaw. Unwin, T. Fisher, 104. Vandervelde, Émile, 186, 486. Van Uhde, 222. Vasa-Theater, 326. Vaudeville Magazine, 11. Vedrenne, J. E., 371-2, 398, 446. Velásquez, 200, 224, 227, 393. Verdi, 18, 23, 241, 245. Victoria, Queen, 312. Vieuxtemps, Henri, 254. Vizetelly, Henry, 202. Voltaire, 144, 183-4, 449, 459, 477. Vorst, Mrs. John van, 501. Wagner, Richard, 24, 69, 73, 81, 90, 198, 214, 241, 257, 271, 447, 457, 473, 481, 502; his Tannhäuser, 23, 234, 245; Shaw's first acquaintance with music of, 35, 234; his ascetic temperament, 49; his Tristan und Isolde, 97, 244, 293; Shaw's admiration for, 218, 243; Shaw studies music of, 235; Shaw's defence of, 237; Shaw's criticisms on, 244 et sqq., 252-3; his Die Meistersinger, 244; his Die Walküre, 245; his Das Rheingold, 245, 250; his Ring of the Niblungs, 247, 460; his Lohengrin, 248; his Parsifal, 250; his Götterdämmerung, 377; his story, An End in Paris, 393; his philosophy, 434. Walkley, Arthur Bingham, 20, 121, 203, 232, 279, 324, 333, 363, 364, 374, 387, 412, 444, 460, 489; his Frames of Mind, 319. Wallace, Alfred Russel, 94; his work on Land Nationalization, 95. Wallace, Vincent, 24. Wallas, Graham, 99, 100, 113, 128-9, 158, 174, 178, 503; his Life of Francis Place, 100; his An Economic Eirenicon, 164-5. Warren's Profession, Mrs. See G. B. Shaw. Washington, George, 477. Webb, Sidney, 90-1, 93, 99, 102, 105 et sqq., 114, 116-7, 125 et sqq., 133, 152, 157, 174-5, 178, 225, 314. Weber, his Der Freischütz, 234. Webster, John, 264. Wedmore, Frederick, 299. Wesley College, Dublin, 15-6, 34. Wesley College Quarterly, 16. Westermann's Monatshefte, 337. Whibley, Charles, 215. Whistler, J. McNeill, 204, 222-3, 413-4. Whitcroft, Ellen, 7. Whitman, Walt, 50, 243, 268. Whitney, F. C., 315. Wicksteed, Philip H., 155 et sqq., 160 et sqq.; his Alphabet of Economics, 158. Widowers' Houses. See G. B. Shaw. Wilde, Oscar, 3, 227, 282, 284, 366, 394, 412, 426, 442, 460, 502. Williams, 112. Willis's Rooms, 131. Wilshire, Gaylord, 186. Wilshire's Magazine, 159. Wilson, Mrs., 108, 114-5. Winter, William, 343. Wollstonecraft, Mary, 419, 469. Wolseley, Lord, 312. World, The, 98, 135-6, 195, 231, 237, 239, 244-5, 255, 257, 261, 295. Wright, Charles, 158. Wyndham, Sir Charles, 342, 345-6, 442. Yates, Edmund, 195, 212, 261. Yeats, W. B., 371, 378, 400. You Never Can Tell. See G. B. Shaw. Ysaye, Eugen, 240. Zeit, Die, 431. Zetetical Society, The, 91 et sqq., 122, 144, 271. Zola, Émile, 40, 59, 84, 146, 202, 297, 432, 440, 457; his La Débâcle, 312.

REVIEWS,

from Foreign Journals of Opinion, of

“George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works”

By

ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, M.A., Ph.D.,

of The University of North Carolina

“The book is a most remarkable achievement.”—George Bernard Shaw, in the Morning Post (London), May 3, 1911.

“Mr. Shaw is explored from every point of view.... Newspaper files have been ransacked, forgotten controversies between dramatic critics or different kinds of Socialists have been unearthed, profound researches made into contemporary literature suggesting parallels and illustrations, stray thoughts gathered up and traced in their development from childhood to middle age....

“We cannot praise Mr. Henderson too highly. We know of nothing in the literature of biography that is so exhaustively complete.”—Westminster Gazette (London), April 22, 1911.

“Its comprehensiveness gives it the importance of an historical document.... It is something more than a chronicle of the life of Mr. Bernard Shaw, it is a remarkable chronicle of English revolutionary movements during the last twenty-five years.... In the sixteen chapters of his book, Dr. Henderson tells the history of the idea movements of the last quarter of a century apropos of Bernard Shaw.... The reader who cannot find instruction and entertainment within its covers lacks the art of reading.”—Holbrook Jackson, in the Bookman (London), May, 1911.

“Dr. Henderson's authorized and critical biography ... is indispensable.... The fullest, the best informed, and the most carefully studied account of Bernard Shaw that has yet been published.... The book will rank immediately after Mr. Shaw's own works as material for students of the advanced tendencies of which in this country the author of John Bull's Other Island is the most conspicuous representative....”—The Scotsman (Edinburgh), April 13, 1911.

“A biography that could scarcely be bettered.... It is full, minute, and exact. Biographer and autobiographer have joined forces, and the result is a masterly study of the most complicated personality of our time.... The author has spared no pains in verifying his references and arranging his materials. Here you have Shaw in his quiddity.... Dr. Henderson out-Boswells Boswell in his enormous pertinacity, his prodigious fidelity. He has not left a crumb for other biographers.”—James Douglas, in the Star (London), April 15, 1911.

“It would be hard to find anyone perfectly equipped for the task (of writing Shaw's biography). Mr. Granville Barker ... would have shown a more intelligent sympathy in Mr. Shaw's ideals. But we should have had as much Barker as Shaw. Our lily would have been painted. Mr. Archer might have seized the opportunity to set up that guillotine for which he once sighed. Mr. Webb would have been unreliable once inside the theatre. We might have had a score of articles from various writers, each qualified to speak on one aspect of Mr. Shaw, but we should then have been like children with the pieces of a puzzle, unable to fit them together. No, Professor Henderson is not easily dethroned....

“The book is almost a history of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and ... it has not a dull moment.”—Evening Standard and St. James's Gazette (London), April 11, 1911.

“At length comes the really big thing, ... and following precedent, it comes from the home of big things, America. Dr. Henderson ... is not only elaborate in his interpretation of our leading dramatist and controversialist, but comprehensive as well. His book is ... a mine in which all future students of George Bernard Shaw will be forced to dig and delve.... Nothing is impossible to this amazingly energetic American professor.... Professor Henderson is an interpreter of modern ideas. He feels that we are in the midst of a remarkable intellectual awakening, and he is impelled ... to give his complex and multiplex period a coherent voice....

“Professor Archibald Henderson is the modern counterpart of the old chronicler; they saw the romance and significance of events, he sees the romance and significance of ideas; he is a Hakluyt of ideas, of personalities.... His interests and his enthusiasms embrace the hemispheres.”—Black and White (London), April 22, 1911.

“Ce livre n'est pas seulement une étude magistrale sur la personnalité la plus compliquée de notre temps, il est aussi un exposé fort complet des divers mouvements d'idées qui ont agité l'Angleterre en ces derniers vingt-cinq ans.... Mr. Henderson mérite qu'on lui sache gré des six ans de labeur qu'il a consacrés à ce livre, qui restera un document des plus précieux.”—Henry D. Davray, in the Mercure de France (Paris), June 16, 1911.

“The reader's astonishment when the book is laid down is not at its length but at its brevity.... Here things regain their true proportions, and much of our astonishment and admiration for the book, its author, and its hero are due to this.... Nowhere does Dr. Henderson's critical faculty show to greater advantage than in his deductions as to the general aim of the plays.... Dr. Henderson is a critic before he is a biographer. There is nothing of the attitude of a Boswell in his work.... There remains the possibility that others may gauge the results of Shaw's secret with more acumen than he himself. There is no probability, however, that this will ever be done with more discretion, discernment, and distinction than by Mr. Henderson.”—Manchester Courier (England), April 11, 1911.

“An elaborate and detailed history of Bernard Shaw and his effects as a dramatist, Socialist, and general revolutionary.... George Bernard Shaw is looked at, sounded, discussed, examined, and appraised from every point of view.... It is a well into which all future students of Bernard Shaw will have to dip their buckets.... The biographical chapters are brimming over with lively anecdote.... In the three chapters devoted to Shaw as a dramatist, Mr. Henderson gives a critical analysis of the plays of G. B. S. which is as penetrating as it is painstaking, and will easily give him a front seat among Bernard Shaw's commentators.... Shaw's ... biographer has succeeded, and it is no small praise to say that throughout the whole of his book you feel that you are in the presence of a living personality....”—T. P.'s Weekly (London), April 21, 1911.

“This notable book ... is a long one, but we have noticed very few faults either in fact or of taste in reading it.... Nothing in it is so salutary as the final impression it leaves of the power to which a man can attain through the old-fashioned virtues of energy, industry, and determination.... As critic, political thinker, and dramatist, Mr. Shaw has managed to do a great deal of splendid work ...; and Dr. Henderson gives us a capital picture of it all.”—Pall Mall Gazette (London), April 11, 1911.

“A record which, in completeness, is unique among the Men of Our Time. What would we not give to know as much of some of the mighty intellects of the past!”—Daily Graphic (London), April 11, 1911.

“Acknowledgment should be made of Dr. Henderson's critical sanity.... A most interesting and weighty book. It is the nearest thing to that ideal autobiography which Mr. Shaw will never write, and is a worthy tribute to a man of whom this country ought to be proud.”—George Sampson, in the Daily Chronicle (London), April 11, 1911.

“The large and exceedingly handsome volume ... deals with its distinguished subject in every variety of aspect, while managing to remain itself both interesting and entertaining.”—Punch (London), May 10, 1911.

“Mr. Henderson's book is full of good things.... He analyses and explains, watches and reports, exploits the whys and retails the wherefores.... He is a searchlight....”—Sketch (London), May 3, 1911.

“Mr. Henderson's criticism of the plays of George Bernard Shaw is, indeed, acute and painstaking to an extraordinary degree.”—Lloyd's Weekly (Liverpool), April 30, 1911.

“Mr. Henderson's illuminating Life.... His task has been carried out with remarkable thoroughness.”—Globe (London), April 12, 1911.

“Dr. Henderson has done his work with the Boswellian thoroughness and assiduity. He has tracked Mr. Shaw down through the files of remote and forgotten newspapers; he has ransacked libraries; he has unearthed and pumped Mr. Shaw's friends and critics in all countries; he has zealously studied the social movements in which his hero was involved, and got the atmosphere of the London intellectual cliques as if he had lived his life among them instead of being a Professor in an American University. Finally, he has compelled Mr. Shaw himself to take an interest in the work, to contribute to it, criticise it, and thoroughly overhaul it, so much so indeed as to lead to the suggestion that it should be called a biography and autobiography.... If he (Dr. Henderson) has not given us the verdict which history will pronounce on his subject ..., he has pronounced the verdict of the clever people of to-day.”—R. A. Scott-James, in the Daily News (London), April 11, 1911.

“A document of value. Immense pains have been taken by the author and by Mr. Shaw to bring together within its covers as many of the facts about Mr. Shaw's life and character and opinion as Mr. Shaw wishes to be generally known.... Best of all the chapters is that called 'The Cart and Trumpet,' the record of the days when his personal force was in full flood.”—Outlook (London), April 22, 1911.

“The chapters which tell of the rise of the Socialistic spirit in London, dating as it does from about 1880, of the genesis of the Fabian Society, and of various controversies upon economic matters, are capital reading and form valuable contributions to the history of the period.... Another excellent feature is the portion of the book dealing with the brilliant Vedrenne-Barker seasons at the Court Theatre—seasons which made theatrical history rapidly and forced both the critics and the public to sit up and look around.”—Wilfred L. Randall, in the Academy (London), April 29, 1911.

“We are agreeably surprised to find a critic who can consider the Shavian drama without going to extremes of laudation or disapproval. Mr. Henderson has found the golden mean.”—Irish Times (Dublin), May 12, 1911.