The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-10

Y Clarke Company, Gin
cinnatA. The forthcom-
- ing volume will con-
tain a preface written specially for
the American edition.
The American publication of this
book is an event of unusual interest.
ME EngFish edition, published in
April by Messrs- Hurst 4 Blackett,
Ltd, of London. has attracted more
attention in England and on the Con-
tinent than perhaps any othe: Amer
lean book his year.
A notice Of DR.. Henderson's Amer
lean edition will as a matter Of
course appear in the North Carolina
Review for November. Meantime
readers Of the Review will be glad to
know what foreign critics think of
DIR. Henderson's work.
Some criticisms printed in the
mIst influential periodicals Of the
United Kingdom are printed below,
together with one reneh review:
LAS a whole, the book is a most
remarkable achievement" - George
Bernard Shaw, in the Morning Post,
Iondon), May 8, 1911.
Mr.. Shaw is explored from every
point Of view. Newspaper files have
been ransacked, forgotten contro-
versies 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
raced in tlt>ir development from
childhood to middle age. :
" cannot praise Mr.. Hender-
Son too highly. We know OF nothing
in the literature of biography that is
SO exhaustively complete.'-West-
minister Gazette, April p, 1911.
Its ccmprehensiveness gives 1T the
Importance of an historical docu-
ment. 1t is something more
than a chronicle Of the life Of Mr..
Bernard Shaw, it i a remarkable
'cls onicle Of English revolutionary
movements during the last twenty
five years. x In the sixteen
chapters Of his book, DIR. Henderson
tells the history Of the idea move
ments of the last quarter OF a cen
fury apropos of Bernard Shaw. :
4 x The reader who cannot find in
]struction and entertainment within
it's covers lacks the art of reading
Holbrook Jackson, in the
ULondon), May 1, 1911.
Dr.. Henderson's authorized and
critical biography is indis-
studied account Of Bernard Shaw that
has yet been published. The
book will rank Immediately after Mr..
Shaw's own works as material Tor
students Of the advanced tendencies
of which in this country the author
of John Bulls Other Island is the
most conspicuous representative. :
y s'-The Scotsman Edinburgh,
April -, 1911.
"A biography hat could scarcely
be hettered. : 1t is full, mi
mute, and exact. B~iographer and au-
photographer W. Joined forces, and
the result is a mastery 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. :
x DIR. Henderson out-BosWelE
Boswell in his enormous pertinac1ty,
his prodigious fidelity. He has no,
left a crumb for other b~iosraphers.'
James Douglas, in the Star tLon-
dom, April Is, 1911
1T would be hard to find anyone
perfectly equipped for the task (o1
writing ShaW's biography. Mr
Granville Barker Woult
have shown a more intelligent sym
pathy in Mr.. Shaw's ideals. But w
should have had as much Barker a.
Shaw. Our lily would have beer
painted. Mr.. Archer might have
seized the opportunity to set up tina
guilfotine for which he once signed
Mr.. Webb would have been unreEa-
BILE once inside the theatre. W.
might have had a score of article:
from various writer's. each Gnaihet
to speak on one aspect of Mr.. Shaw
but we should then have been liz
children with the pieces of a puzzle
unable to fit them together NO
Professor Henderson is not easily de-
throned.
e1-l~ l,n0- &c almost history q
the last quarter of the nineteenth
century. and : it. has not {
dull ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and
and ST. Janes's Gazette tLondon}
April II, 1911.
LAT length comes the really bis