George Bernard Shaw, his life and works; a critical biography (authorized) . adyBrandon, his misleading promise to Erskine, are all exhibitionsof his Jesuitical policy. The exponent of Socialism and theNew Morality, Trefusis has no scruples in employing unfairmeans to secure whatsoever he wants—for the cause of labourand for himself.* Mr. W. L. Courtney has somewhere called attention to thecurious triumph achieved by our only modern dramatist, ashe calls Bernard Shaw, in view of the fact that Shaw has neverhesitated at interpreting women as beasts of prey. In thenovels we find premonitions of
George Bernard Shaw, his life and works; a critical biography (authorized) . adyBrandon, his misleading promise to Erskine, are all exhibitionsof his Jesuitical policy. The exponent of Socialism and theNew Morality, Trefusis has no scruples in employing unfairmeans to secure whatsoever he wants—for the cause of labourand for himself.* Mr. W. L. Courtney has somewhere called attention to thecurious triumph achieved by our only modern dramatist, ashe calls Bernard Shaw, in view of the fact that Shaw has neverhesitated at interpreting women as beasts of prey. In thenovels we find premonitions of Shaws later attitude toward * The hero is remarkable because, without losing his pre-eminence ashero, he not only violates every canon of propriety, like Tom Jones or DesGrieux, but every canon of sentiment as well. In an age when the averagemans character is rotted at the core by the lust to be a true gentleman,the moral value of such an example as Trefusis is incalculable.— Shaws Works of Fiction. Reviewed by Himself. In the NovelReview, February, 1892. 80. Q£ s; C > Jfe //Zvm-2, THE NOVELIST women, Some suspicion of Shaws theory that woman takesthe initiative in sex business dawns upon us when MadgeBrailsford openly courts Owen Jack; but Lydia Carew, thatbloodless Ibsen type, is anything but the huntress. An UnsocialSocialist opens our eyes; for Henrietta shamelessly pursues themocking Trefusis and exhausts every feminine wile in the effortto induce him to return to the chains of wedlock. The idea isalso uppermost in the final scene, in which Trefusis, by meansof a little diabolically-concocted sentiment, persuades the pur-suing Gertrude to give him up, and, for his sake, to marryErskine. When Shaw came to erect his theory into a systemin Man and Superman, he threw a flood of light upon all hisformer work. There is a keynote to the philosophy of everygreat or pioneer thinker: Shakespeare had his Hamlet, Wagnerhis Free-willing of Necessity, Schopenhauer his
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