+ – Atlan. 97: 56. Ja. ’06. 440w. + Critic. 48: 476. My. ’06. 120w.
Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– Ind. 60: 1042. My. 3, ’06. 120w.
“He leaves us just where he finds us, as far as any serious discussion of the question goes. The display of pyrotechnics in the story is not bad, though of course these be but pale and ineffectual fires beside the author’s later work.”
+ Reader. 7: 452. Mr. ’06. 560w.
“Its cleverness is beyond question; so too is the frigidity of its characterisation. We can cordially recommend the first twenty-five out of the four hundred odd pages which the book contains.”
+ – Spec. 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 270w.
Shaw, George Bernard. Plays: pleasant and unpleasant. 2v. **$2.50. Brentano’s.
The first of the two volumes contains the “unpleasant plays,” “Widowers’ houses,” “The philanderer,” and “Mrs. Warren’s profession.” They are so called because “their dramatic power is used to force the spectator to face unpleasant facts,” and in “dealing with economics social and moral relations, Shaw has delivered the most direct blow yet levelled by the stage against the cowardice of social compromise.” The “pleasant plays” are “Arms and the man,” “Candida,” “The man of destiny,” and “You never can tell.” They “deal less with the crime of society and more with its romantic follies.”