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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931.

"SHAWMANSHIP." to London in 1871 preceded Shaw's HANDY COIL OF ROPE,

FRANK HARRIS'S LIFE had loft the Wesleyan Connexional

OF G.B.S..

EARLY WORK.

own pilgrimage to stayed for four yoars in Dublin afterwards, In lodginga with his father, Shaw'

School at fiftoon, and had a job aa cashier at Townshend's catate

Mev.

of

BUK-

WIFE'S WHIM JUSTIFIES ITSELF.

London, Dec. 24. *

A wife's whim that for years

In this connexion Harris gests that Shaw's progress has had threatened to mor the domestic "So he comes to his end, a Puritan been seldom due to his own initia- bliss of Mr. and Mrs. Mason, of rebel who insulted his times and tive. It was his mother who came Pinner, Middlesex, justified itself was well paid for it..... A white first to London. It was through last night, and saved their lives. bearded ange with a funny twist hearing Henry George, the author in mind, not in any sense a min

Since her marriage the wife had to be feared any more."

Progress and Poverty at

Hall, that he joined always Insisted, despite the hua- With this disillusioned farewell the airoady-formed Fabian Society, band's protests, on keeping a coll to the old friend in whom he had with Hydman, Mr. Sidney Webhaf rope in the bedroom. Last belleved whole-heartedly

forty (the future Lord Passfeld), and aight the couple were wakened by years before, the Inte Frank Mrs. Sidney Webb, and the future smoke and found. the staircase Harris enda hle own part In Lord Olivier.

ablize. Notwithstanding her "Bernard Shaw. An Unauthorised It was

anxiety to reach safety, the wife Biography, Based on Firat-Hand after nine years of unsuccessful the rope to the foot of the bod, "1 William Archor who, murmured triumphantly as she tied Information, with n Postcript by novel-writing on Shaw's part, got told you so," and let herself down Mr. Shaw." published (Victor him his first critical work on the into the street. Ifor husband also Gollancz, 88. Gd.).

"Pall Mall Gazette" and "World." availed himself of the ropa.-Reu- In several respects it in certain-It was Archer also who planned ter's Special Service. ly the queerest blography over and suggested Shaw's first written the combined product, as]"Widowers'

play, Houses," Possibly, author and subject, of two men Harris overdoes this notion. To good reason for being late, always of genius and of diametrically op have written five novels without scrupulous, correcting the proofs | pasite temperaments, both over one acceptance hardly suggests heavily, with rare conscientious. seventy, and both utterly un-lack of initiative-not counting mess, and always doing his very regardfu) of any sort of conven- some of Shaw's Inter adventures. tion.

So far as concerns the facts of Although Harris did not know Harris says he would not des- Shaw's upbringing both in ire- his future dramatic critle in the cribe Shaw, as a "chameleon on a land and England-there need be earlier part of Shaw's 20 years' plaid " he considers that in later littic division of opinion. A good sojourn with mother and sister at years he has always had an eye den is taken from Shaw's own 29. Fitzoy-square, he reminits uso profitable publicity-or what he prefacqs, novels and letters, and that Shaw was a very different terms "Shawmanship." He recalls Dr. Henderson's official looking person before he blossomed Oscar Wilde's not wholly accurate out into the costume familiar to dictim upon Shaw that he has not We already know something the Nineties. Shaw's first em- enemy in the world, but none about. the "shabby genteelployment on his arrival in London of his friends likes him.".

range in Dublin-the dranken was in the "wayicave” department and squinting father, the mother of the Edison Telephone Company; "a spirit of sympathetic raillery." who made a religion of music, and He made his round of shopkeepers Frank," he says, "why a man of the Svengali-like lodger, George and others in comparatively "busi-splendid visions..

He ultimately John Vandaleur Lec, teacher of ners-like" apparel.

quarrelled with everybody but singing, who afterwards trans-

This, however, grew more and Shakespeare, and this book forred his "method" to Parklanc. more seedy during the novel-writ-|talna several atempta to quarrel With the instinet of a master of ing period-1879 to 1883--From with me. But I bear no malice, us

from

"Life

beat.

To all this Shaw answors

in

con-

the short story, Harris

coneen-which in sum of his literary earn- he is at bottom trying to quarrel trates on Lee. IL WAK to Lee'sings was

£6 158. Gd. Ultimately with a scheme of things in which influence Shaw owed largely the the black cont became green; the fellows like

me crawl, belween fact that he was steeped in music cuffs pared to the quick. The top earth and heaven and snatch little almost from the cradle, and knew hat, which Shaw then favoured, successes in which there ix no every note of Mozart before he had had to be

worn back to front, sort of justice and fundamentally raven seen an opera performed. The rina hnd grown too soft for it no reality."

Although the domination of Lee to be otherwise lifted. over Mrs. Shaw appears to have been complete. Shaw Арките Harris in a letter that she WAY never Len's mistress

Shaw as Cashier.'

The "begira" of Mrs. Shaw, with her daughter And Lee, from Dublin

The most surprising revelations As Contributor.

in the book are contained in Shaw's As Shaw's editor on the Satur-letters to Harris in regard to early tay Revicle. Harris's remem-amours. The sheer shamelesness Frances are entirely happy. "Well fof the recountal makes its author's or ill," he writes, "he was a most recent errors against taste trivial admirable contributor, always so far as the abandoment of self- poactual unless there Was soine respect is concerned.

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