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Title: George Bernard Shaw, his life and works; a critical biography (authorized)
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963
Subjects: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 Shaw family
Publisher: Cincinnati Stewart & Kidd
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rectangle—acurious cephalic conformation ready made to the hand of thecartoonist. Mr. Gilbert Chestertons description, in his book, The Balland the Cross, of the sane professor of psychology whose ideasare wilder than those of the lunatics under his charge, gives arather startling picture in semi-caricature—with slight varia-tions—of the man Shaw: The advancing figure walked witha stoop, and yet, somehow, flung his forked and narrow beardforward. That carefully cut and pointed yellow beard was,indeed, the most emphatic thing about him. When he claspedhis hands behind him, under the tails of his coat, he would waghis beard at a man like a big forefinger. It performed almostall the gestures; it was more important than the glitteringeye-glasses through which he looked, or the beautiful, bleatingvoice in which he spoke. His face and neck were of a lusty red,but lean and stringy; he always wore his expensive gold-rimeye-glasses slightly askew upon his aquiline nose, and he always 496
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Jultpb Simpson.) (Couitety of the Artiit. G. B. S. (A Cartoon). Reproduced from Three Living Lions. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW showed two gleaming foreteeth under his moustache, in a smileso perpetual as to earn the reputation of a sneer. The extravagant braggart and arrant poseur of the Shavianmyth vanishes in the presence of the real Shaw. His playfulpretence of vanity is a source of great amusement to himselfand his friends. Socially, it is an admirable resource in theart of entertainment. I have never pretended that G. B. S.was real, said Shaw the other day: I have over and overagain taken him to pieces before the audience to show the trickof him. And even those who, in spite of that, cannot escapefrom the illusion, regard G. B. S. as a freak. The whole pointof the creature is that he is unique, fantastic, unrepresentative,inimitable, impossible, undesirable on any large scale, utterlyunlike anybody that ever existed before, hopelessly unnatural,and void of real passion. Clearly such a m

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