Chapter XIV

. (from which the above and following quotations are taken), Mr. Maude says, “was sent to me as an aid to the completion of this work. It professes to deal with that period of our management when we rehearsed a piece by the brilliant Mr. Bernard Shaw. The writer, I am assured, is well fitted to deal with that period. I leave it to the reader to judge, and to guess its authorship.” Needless to say that the author was Bernard Shaw himself!

[155] _The Court Theatre, 1904-1907_, by Desmond MacCarthy (A. H. Bullen, London, 1907), p. 57.

[156] _Post-Express_ (Rochester, N. Y.), December 3d, 1904.

[157] _Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction; or the Fatal Gazogene_; originally appeared in _Harry Furniss's Christmas Annual_ for 1905 (Arthur Treherne and Co. Ltd., Adelphi, London), pp. 11-24, with illustrations by Mr. Harry Furniss.

[158] The text of this dainty little interlude is to be found in the _Daily Mail_, January 29th, 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Maude were playing in _Toddles_ at the time.

[159] The figure of Lady Cicely Waynflete possesses an unique interest in view of the fact conveyed in the following record of Ellen Terry's: “At this time (1897), Mr. Shaw and I frequently corresponded. It began by my writing to ask him, as musical critic of the _Saturday Review_ (!), to tell me frankly what he thought of the chances of a composer-singer friend of mine. He answered 'characteristically,' and we developed a perfect fury for writing to each other. Sometimes the letters were on business, sometimes they were not, but always his were entertaining, and mine were, I suppose, 'good copy,' as he drew the character of Lady Cicely Waynflete in _Brassbound_ entirely from my letters. He never met me until after the play was written.” _From Lewis Carroll to Bernard Shaw_, in _McClure's Magazine_, September, 1908.

THE PLAYWRIGHT--II

“I have, I think, always been a Puritan in my attitude towards Art. I am as fond of fine music and handsome buildings as Milton was, or Cromwell, or Bunyan; but if I found that they were becoming the instruments of a systematic idolatry of sensuousness, I would hold it good statesmanship to blow every cathedral in the world to pieces with dynamite, organ and all, without the least heed to the screams of the art critics and cultured voluptuaries.”--_Why for Puritans?_ Preface to _Three Plays for Puritans_, p. xix.

“I do not satirize types. I draw individuals as they are. When I describe a tub, Archer and Walkley say it is a satire on a tub.”--Conversation with the author.

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