THE VANITY OF SHAW.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 5, 7 January 1915, Page 4

THE VANITY OF SHAW.

That his brother-Fabian, Mi H. C. tVVlls, should describe Mr G. B. Shaw as an irrepressible "nuisance" and no

better than an "idiot child screaming in a hospital," is evidence that Mr Shaw's writings on the war have becoe unbearable, says the Christchurch Press. When the mail left London on November 20th his industrious efforts to obtain some new publicity—most people had grown a little tired of his plays and his cleverness—had succeeded. He contributed to the "New, Statesman" an article designed to prove that the guilt for the war was Britain's quite as much as Germany's

—that Britain butted into the war for her own advantage., and that while nobody should complain of that, it is grossly hypocritical to pretend that "Britain had any chivalrous regard for Belgian neutrality. Mr Shaw's facts were . equal to his morality, and his morality permits him to say that "the waste-paper baskets of the foreign offices are full of torn-up 'scraps of paper,' and a very good thing, too." Everyone in Britain knows that Mr Shaw will say anything in his anxiety to appear unlike other men, but his writings will be translated into German and used in Europe to mislead public opinion there. For be is known in Europe as a prominent English author, not as a self-satisfied and irresponsible poseur.