The Washington times., 1919-02-23


&, peare and me, and we
should have treated them '------
kindly Bernard Shaw however would also say that he
shaw would beat Shakespeare Of modern fiction writers
NO man comes before GalswOrthy.
Perhaps you would like to look GalswOrthy for a
moment he appears in this country, and study type
Of the earnest really literary and really GENTLE English
gentleman who doesn't in the least what you think
about him, apparently nothing about anything or
anybody, except his work.
He has the EngIshman's faculty of being comfort
able matter where he sits how. Sitting up straight
briefly sitting with his of gravity be-
his shoulder blades listening patiently Balfour
used to sit in the House of Commons Galsworthy is al
ways comfortable
Americans, you have observed always sit though
they were uncomfortable and they usually are
Galsworthy has the Englishman's knack of dressing
so carefully that he to be dressed carelessy His
neck wrists and ankles all stick out they should and
always do with Engishmen. Americans their necks
with high collars their wrists with long cuffs often
make it worse especially the stage by shooting those
cuffs that they the first joint of the thumb.
Galsworthys carelessy careful suit is delicate pale
brown If he walked among autumn leaves and withered
branches thinking about his Saints Quest" he would
melt into the background and you wouldn't him.
On that brown suit every button and there are many
especially the sleeves is carefully covered with brown
leather. Some English tailor worked hard that.
So much for the birds plumage.
The BEST thing about Galsworthy is his finely con-
structed head On top it is 70 per high the
head of Walter Scott and that is 80 per cent higher than
the average
The most interesting and UNUSUAL thing about Gals
worthy-perhaps nobody told him so-s his pair of
that point forward at you right from antiquity. Or
dnary mems slope backward though trimmed and
by ife's monotony Galsworthys ears stick for
ward at the top like those of wild faun of the forest
His gentle, quiet nature is unlike that of a nymph
frightening faun the nature of Queen Mary is unlike
that of the leading lady in Euripides Bacchae
Those pointed faun-lke have a very important
meaning; perhaps Mr. Galsworthy doesn't know that /
either They prove that he and his for some
thousands of years. in spite of many mixtures of different
races have been strong individuals and have resisted
processes of evolution which or less LEVELING
processes i
This writer the first point out in print the /
unusual strength of Theodore Roosevets teeth which
subsequently became important asset in Mr. Roose-
Vet's political career.
RooseVets teeth, which might have been inherited
from Reanderthal ancestor like Galsworthys pointed
ears indicate the strength that ressts change and evou
5ion
In speech Galsworthy belongs distinctly among the
Engshmen that sing There three kinds of English
speech:
Some Englishmen actually talk. Gladstone and Brad
laugh or Morley represented the talking Engishmen con-
5tantly dwindIing minority 4
Other Englshmen including 80 per cent of the upper
class produce gurgng sound in the throat which ends
with aW While this gurglng has meaning to Amer
leans Huxley maintained that the gurglers actually have
language understand each other and sometimes carry
sustained conversations, especially after dinner Is
The third class of Engishmen to which Gasworthy
belongs do not gurge they do not talk like Gladstone or