“The figures might be cast-iron for anything they show of the flexibility and mutability of human life, and they are exhibited, not by one who clearly sees and thoroughly understands the springs of conduct and the objects of endeavour, but by a youth who in his revolt against old conventions has already rushed into grooves of his own.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1094. O. 21, ‘05. 1170w. | |
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 539. O. 21. 420w. |
“The publishers of the day may be forgiven for thinking that there was no public then to appreciate or understand the ‘original morality’ of Mr. Shaw at the age of twenty-four. We have got used to the ‘original morality’ since then; we could understand a publisher’s refusing the book now as being out of date.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 350. O. 20, ‘05. 830w. |
“It is much inferior in interest to ‘Cashel Byron’s profession’ and considerably less repulsive than ‘The unsocial socialist’ and ‘Love among the artists.’”
| + — | Nation. 81: 368. N. 2, ‘05. 350w. |
“It is hardly necessary to say that this new book contains much brilliant wit, and the cunningly worded results of many acute observations of men—and especially women—‘as they really are.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 310w. | |
| Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 40w. | ||
| * | + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 320w. |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 759. D. ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “It is possible that the same mysterious force which drove him through the labour of writing it may have had some purpose which will sustain others through the labour of reading it.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: sup. 8. N. 18, ‘05. 780w. |