SKETCH OF G.B.S.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1605, 23 November 1912, Page 11

SKETCH OF G.B.S.

An,interesting glimpse of the horn® life of 1 Mr. G. B. Shaw is given in "Thirteen Years in a Busy. Woman's Lifo," by Mrs.S Alec Tweedie. It is a description of the; flat that G. B. S.: adorns in Adelphi Ter-' race, and ono that few visitors are privileged to'enter:— . "The large drawingroom overlooking the Thames, is furnished in a new artmodern carpet, hard, straight-lined, whifceonamelled bookcases, a greeny-yellow wall —a few old prints, 'tis true —and over the writing-table his own bust by Rodin, so thin and aristocratic in conception that it far more closely resembles our mutual friend Robert Cunninghame Graham. No curtains; open windows; sanitation; hygiene; vegetarianism; modernism on every side. Bernard Shaw has no reverence for oge or custom, antiquity or habit—a modem man, his is a modern home, only rendered homelike bv the touch of a charming woman. It is wonderful how loud-talking Socialism succumbs to calm, peaceful, respectable comfort. Since his marriage the Socialist has given up much of his practice of his theories, and is ac* ccpting the daily use of fino linen and silver, the pleasure of flowers and dainty things. He politely owns himself the liappier for them; but then Mrs. Bernard Shaw is a refined and delightful woman. . . She is well connected, clever, and tactful, and the sheet-anchor of G. B. S."

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