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...FABIAN ESSAYS (246 pp.)-Macmillan...
...infancy are included in George Bernard's own latest book, bits & pieces of autobiography called Sixteen Self Sketches. In Days With Bernard Shaw, Stephen Winsten, a writer and lecturer who lives next door to Shaw in Hertfordshire, gives an excellent record of their neighborly conversations over recent years. Fabian Essays, written 60 years ago by Shaw, Sidney Webb and others (and now re-issued with a new essay by Shaw himself) links up the years between. There is little of Shaw the playwright in these books, but much of Shaw the boy and Shaw...
...wonder that, years later, Shaw was to find his niche in the Fabian Society -"a minority of cultural snobs" who, he says, standing haughtily apart from the English proletariat, permeated the governing class and helped utterly to change the face of Britain...
...Fabian Secretary...
Interest in social problems and experience in the labor field led to his appointment as general secretary of the Fabian Society in 1935, and to designation as the executive committee of England's growing Labor Party...