“The biographical appeal of the book does not quite bear the accepted relation to the historical.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ – Atlan. 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 110w.
Meiklejohn, John Miller Don. English language: its grammar, history and literature. *$1.20. Heath.
A revised American edition of Professor Meiklejohn’s work incorporates into it the latest results of modern scholarship.
“In its present form will be found more valuable than ever before.”
+ Dial. 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 50w. + R. of Rs. 34: 640. N. ’06. 50w.
Mencken, Henry Louis. George Bernard Shaw; his plays. $1. Luce, J: W.
An attempt “to bring all of the Shaw commentators together upon the common ground of admitted facts, to exhibit the Shaw plays as dramas rather than as transcendental treatises, and to describe their plots, characters, and general plans simply and calmly, and without reading into them anything invisible to the naked eye.”