“Truth to tell, Mr. Jackson has so soaked himself in the Shaw drama, the Shaw economics, ethics, and politics, and the Shaw philosophy, that he is not able to stand sufficiently away from his subject to see him objectively. His whole book is oppressed with the weight of Mr. Shaw’s personality.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 2: 376. S. 28. 580w. |
“The book is well written, and, in its biographical pages especially, highly entertaining.”
| + | Dial. 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 370w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 250w. |
“Still, since ‘it is obvious that’ Mr. Shaw, like Alice, is incapable of explaining himself and needed some one to write him down to the level of the hyper-self-conscious middle class, Mr. Jackson has performed the kind office very fairly well.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 261. Ag. 30, ’07. 1450w. |
“The book is also likely to prove interesting to connoisseurs in human intellectual vagaries, not only because it is cleverly written, in a way that often reflects what the faithful call the Shavian attitude and manner but because it gives an apparently authoritative summary of Mr. Shaw’s various theories, social, political and the like, and furnishes some significant facts which may help to account for a good many of them.”
| + | Nation. 85:334. O. 10, ’07. 490w. |
Jackson. Lucie E. Feadora’s failure; il. by J. Macfarlane. $1. McKay.