A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY
(Authorized)
By
ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, M.A., Ph.D.
Of the University of North Carolina
With 33 Illustrations, including two Plates in Colour (one from an autochrome
by Alvin Langdon Coburn, the other from a water-colour by Bernard
Partridge), two Photogravures (Coburn and Steichen),
and numerous facsimiles in the text
STEWART & KIDD COMPANY
CINCINNATI
1911
Copyright, 1911,
STEWART & KIDD CO.
AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION
More than six years ago I conceived the idea of writing a book about Bernard Shaw. The magnitude of the undertaking and the elusiveness of the subject, had I realized them then in their full significance, might well have made me pause. My earliest interest in his work, aroused by his thoughtful laughter and piqued by his elfish impudence, convinced me that this remarkable talent was like no other I had known.