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BERNARD SHAW TELLS LIFE-STORY.
Continued from Page 1.)
"Rejected Novels. But in 1870 he had written a novel. He had disciplined himself to fill pages of manuscript each day, and he had still "so much of the schoolboy and the clerk" in him that if the five pages ended in the middle of a sentence he did finish it till the next day.
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tipon this plan he produced five novela in five years. He had no success, Filty or sixty refusals made him "undiscourageable, ac quiring a superhuman insensitive. ne to raise or blame."
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1930.
"My mother rescued herself from" this predicament by her musical. talent. My father reduced his testo talism from theory to practice when a mild fit, which feiled him on our doorstep one Sunday after- novo, convinced him that he must stop drinking or perish..
RUNAWAY TRAIN ON VESUVIUS.
DASH DOWN MOUNTAIN,
On the small electric mountain "Too Humane Mother."
railway which carries hundreds of "His reform came too late to tourists up to the, crater of Vesu- save the social situation; and I was cus off from the social drill which vius three carriages of the train puts one at one's case in private recently broke loose and started on society, and utterly ignorant ofa wild descent of the steep slopes social routine. My mother, who had been as carefully brought up as Queen Victoria, was too humane to indict what she had suffered on
any child; besides, I think she im agined that correct behaviour is inborn, and that too much of what she had best caught was natural to her. "
This is how Shaw explains his erudeness when he came to Lon- don as a youth
The first novel was actually se cepted by Blackwood; but the offer
"If I had been merely shy pro- was withdrawn. Sir George Mac-vincially, with incorrect table millan sent trim a "longish and
manners and wrong clothes; if I evidently considered report by the had eaten pons with a knife and firm's reader. John (afterwards
worn a red with an evening Lord) Morley." But it is only now suit, kind parould have taken that it finds its way into print.
me in hand drilled me, but It nearly 200.000 words long:
my difficulties were not of that but, says Mr. Shaw, the script was still legible, with the easy remediable kind." writing sloping slightly backwards. though the ends of the pages had beer nibbled my mice and the words han be restored.
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of the volcano. The carriages were fortunately empty, except for three conductors, who were bring them to a standstill in spite of braking, and decided to jump out, thus saving, their lives. Mean while the carriages went on, and stations were warned all down the line. They were finally deviated into a side track, where buffers held them up
TREASURE TROVE.
HOARD OF EDWARD III. COINS AT TALYBONT.
A number of gold coins described by the authorities of the British Musu as nobles, formed the sub- ject of an inquest held at Talybont, near Aberystwyth, by Mr. T. Eyton Morgan, coroner.
The coins, thirty in number, were found in a perfect state of preser BARRISTER AND JURYMAN.
vation in a niche in a rock by a workman engaged on the construe- There was a heated passage betion of a new road between Ynyslas tween a barrister and a juryman, at inquest at Onger, Essex, re- cently.
Mr. Herbert Malone complained to the coroner that a juryman had told him he was trying to trip a witness This Mr. Malone strong ly denied.
and Trerddol, in the area of the Aberyswyth Rural District Council. They are similar in design, to the gold noble struck by Edward the Third to commemorate the Battle of Sluys, won by the English merchant navy in 1344, and represent him standing armed and crowned in a
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton," he says, "you may still make it dance.'
So he tells the truth about his "You will ask why I was not respectably brought up," he says. "I have never known an inquisi-ship.
Unfortunately, or fortunately it tion like this in all my life," he all depends on how you look at declared, "and I shall take it to it), my father had a habit which the King's Bench."
Later Mr. Malone told, the coro- and consequently to my mother, ner that the juryman had spoken who could not very well be invited to a material witness, telling him without him. "If you asked him his opinion as to how the accident to dinner or to a party he was had occurred. .. .. not quite always sober when he was invariably Arrived, and he scandalously drunk when he left.
"Now, a convivial drunkard may be exhilarating in convivial com
or quarrelsome + pany." Even boastful drunkard may be found entertaining by people who are nct particular.
"But a miserable drunkard-and my father, in theory a teetotaler, was racked with shame and remorse even in his cups-is unbearable.
"We were finally dropped social ly. After my early childhood I
cannot ever remember paying a visit to a relative's house. If ray mother and father had dined out or gone to a party their children would have been more astonished than if the house had caught fire.
Protest to Coroner. The juryan, in his turn, com- plained that Mr. Malone had been pointing at him, and criticising him, ever since the inquiry com- menced. Her had also said that the jury had made up their minds, and it was useless going on.
Mr. Malone denied this, and protested against the juryman sorving.
The coroner said that he did not like to discharge a juryman in the middle of a case. He had
never done 30.
Mr. Malone said that recently High Court Judges had made cer- tain observatons on the conduct of some inquesta, and more would be heard of that.
The coroner said that as far he know that was the first inquest on treasure trove held in the country of Cardigan. When such ands were fully and promptly reported the Treasury would return the coins to the finders unless they were requir ed for-hational or other institutions when they would pay to the finders their antiquarian value.
Evidence as to the finding of the coins was given by three workmen who said they were found in E single pile without any sort of covering. One of the workmen said he took some of the coins home and not realising their value gave them as playthings, to his children with the result that one of the coins was lost. The jury returned a verdict that the find was treasure trove, and that the coins had been intentional; ly hidden. They also asked the
coroner to request the Treasury when disposing of the coins to give the National Museum of Wales and the National Library of Wales the opportunity of acquiring some of them if they so desired...
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