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

y iA IkS ltlV pk0ld-
ton of our leading dramatist and
controversialist, but comprehensive
as Well. His book is q
mine in which all future students Of
George Bernard Shaw will be forced
10 dig n 0elye.
is impossible to this amazingly ener-
getic American professor. =
Professor Henderson is an interpreter
Of d ideas. He feels that we
are in the mid Of a remarkable in
telIectua1 awakening, and he is i'm
PEELED to give his complex
and m%uitiplex period a coherent
Professor Archibald Henderson is
the modern counterpart Of the old
t~chfonlcier; they saw the romance and
significance of events he sees the ro-
nance and significance Of ideas; he
Is a Hackluyt of ideas, of ~personali-
ties. His interests and his en-
thusiasms embrace the ~hemispheres."
t-HolbrooA Jackson. in Black and
White (London), April %, 1911.
The readers a~stonishment when
the book is Laid down is not at its
length but at its brevity.
Here things regain their true pro-
portions, and much of our astonish-
ment and admiration for the book,
it's author, and its hero are due to
this. Nowhere does DR..
Henderson's critical faculty show to
greater advantage than in his deduc-
tions 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 Sc
cret with more acumen than he him
self. There is no probability, how
ever. that this will eve be done with
more discretion, discernment, and
distinction than by Mr.. Henderson,
Manchester (Engiand) Courier,
April II, 1911.
An elaborate and detailed history
of Bernard Shaw and his effects as a
dramatist, Socialist, and general rev.
| dictionary. George Bernard
Shaw is looked at, sounded, discussed,
examined, and appraised from every
point Of view. 1t is a we'll
into which all future students of
Bernard Shaw will have to dip their
| buckets. : The biographical
chapters are trimming over with
lively anecdote. In the
three chapters devoted to Shaw as a
,d(alnatEt, 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
q - seat dk1oIlS Del IdIu oIkdf ,
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. s.
T. P.'s Weekly (London), April q.
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 impress
sion it leaves of the power to which
a man can attain through the old
fashioned virtues Of energy, industry,
and determination. y = AS crit
ic, political thinker, and dramatist,
Mr.. Shaw has managed to do a great
deal of splendid work. and
DIR. Henderson gives us a capital pic
ture of it el."-Pall Mall Gazette
London), April II, 1911.
"A record which, in completeness,
is unique among the Men Of Our
Time What would we not give to
intellects of the past!"-Daily Graph
ic Iondon). April Il. 1911.
Acknowledgement should be made
Of DR.. Henderson's critical sanity. =
s = A most interesting and Weighty
book. 1t is the nearest thing TO that
ideal autobiography which Mr. Shaw
will never write, and is a worthy trIb-
ute 20 a man of whom this COUNT
ought to be proud.'-George Samp-
son. in the Daily Chronicle QAondon),
April II, 1911.
The large and exceedingly hand
|some volume deals with
it's distinguished subject in every va
friety of aspect, while managing to
lremain itself both interesting and en-
observation-disclosures London), May
10, 1911.
Mr.. Henderson's book IS full or
good things. he analyses
and explains, watches and reports,
exploits the why's and retails the
wherefores. He is a search
Elight."-Sketch Iondon), May 3,
(1911.
MIR. Henderson's criticism of the
nIax &c Of GanrCa Rerila I'd SHAW Is. IN