Boswellized

TABLE TALK OF G. B. S.-Archibald Henderson-Harper ($2.00). Last year, Mr. Shaw "granted an interview." Unto him there entered his Boswell, brisk Prof. Henderson of the University of North Carolina; and a book, instead of a column in the newspapers, now emerges. Here indeed is proof of pundithood.

Cinema? "Development must come from the centre, not from the periphery." Nobel Prizes? "The prize-winners are like the modest hotels in Baedeker -'well spoken of: " American "hustle"? "George [Washington] did not run around like a mouse in oxygen as the modern American does." Sex in literature ? "When Linnaeus first wrote on the fertilization of plants, botany was denounced as corrupting to morals. . . . If a man holds up a mirror to your nature and shows you that it needs washing-not white-washing-it is no use breaking the mirror. Go for soap and water." Alleged pro-Germanism in Wartime ? "The Germans eagerly quoted me to show that the moral case against them was a trumped-up one, which it was."