Show BERNARD SHAW PUT IN PURITAN CLASS The fhe oft oCt heard question Is 15 Bernard Shaw serious finds what many will m re- re gaid gard as us a a. final answer In G. G 1 K IC Chesterton's Chesterton's Chester Chester- tons ton's romantic biography of or tho the famous Fabian Bernard Shaw I IB is tho the most S so s rlou rious m man n alive Ch emphatically declares an i an-i he ho thinks It quite UllO Possible possible ble even amid that blinding jewelry of or a n. million jok jokes to dl discover the grave sra solemn and sacred d joke Joko for which each play o of hi his wits was written B Both th Shaw and Chesterton arc are in the direct lino IIno of dl descent from tho the worlds world's niost lt serious writers It Jesters Jester and nd this bo book k of or Chester l' l i S 5 really a t i v v ui work T orlof of biographical portraiture It Is also H it summing up of his lila own side of tho the controversy con on which ha has hal lor iorg i l bt between tween Shaw and this his most mOlt provocative critic The controversy Mr Chesterton would have 0 us believe Is ono one b between Catholicism and Protestantism In its largest implications but although hits his readers are ore likely to agree with him as nS to the singular pro virtues of G GB n. n S. S and ond to admire the way vay In which ho expounds those virtues It Jt Is doubtful If It the orthodox of or either cither creed would welcome t such uch spokesmen Sir Mr Ir Chesterton Chester Chester- ton dl discerns behind all Shaws Shaw's multiform multiform multi multi- form Conn appearances critical dramatic and nial political tho the Inflexible Puritan and however much he lie may roay quarrel quartel tel rel with or misinterpret him It IH Is nothing noth ing less than a a. stroke of or genius to place on th tIm head of or the man he lie portra portrays a aS S Ht crowned hat Current hat Current Literature November |