Chapter IV
., _The Fabian Society_.
[14] The _Pall Mall Gazette_, April 28th, 1888.
[15] _The Religion of the Pianoforte._ In the _Fortnightly Review_, February, 1894.
[16] Mr. Shaw's confessions in regard to his change from “cannibalism” to vegetarianism are perhaps best given in an article in the _Pall Mall Gazette_ for January 26th, 1886, entitled, _Failures of Inept Vegetarians. By an Expert._
[17] For a brief and illuminative biographical sketch of James Leigh Joynes, compare Shaw's review of his book, _Songs of a Revolutionary Epoch_, in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, April 16th, 1888.
[18] The first instalment of _An Unsocial Socialist_ appeared in _To-Day_, a “monthly magazine of Scientific Socialism,” New Series, Vol. I. (January-June, 1884), March number, pp. 205-220. The final instalment appeared in New Series, Vol. II., of the same magazine (July-December, 1884), December number, pp. 543-579. The novel appeared under Shaw's name, and is marked at the close (page 579), “The End,” and dated beneath, “London, 1883,” the date of composition. _Cashel Byron's Profession_ ran in the same magazine through the years 1885 and 1886, beginning in New Series, Vol. III. (January-June, 1885), April number, pp. 145-160, and concluding in Vol. V. (January-June, 1886), March number, pp. 67-73.
[19] _The Irrational Knot_ began in Vol. V. (January-June, 1885), pp. 229-240, ran through Vols. VI., VII. and VIII., and was concluded in Vol. IX. (January-June, 1887), ending on page 82. _Love Among the Artists_ opened in Vol. X. (July-December, 1887) of the same magazine, ran through Vol. XI., and was concluded in Vol. XII. (July-December, 1888), on page 352. It is marked at the close (page 352), “The End, London, 1881”--the date of composition.
[20] Published, in part, in _The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson_, Vol. II., edited by Sidney Colvin.
[21] The _New York Herald_ contained the statement that “Brentanos have done a service to literature in reprinting two of Shaw's novels that are strangely unfamiliar to the American public.”
[22] This book was published in 1900, followed in 1901 by the “Authorized Edition” of _Cashel Byron's Profession_ (also published by H. S. Stone and Co.), which contains the above-quoted remark. In the autumn of 1901, Grant Richards, at the time the English publisher of almost all of Mr. Shaw's works, also brought out a revised edition of _Cashel Byron's Profession_. In the autumn of 1904 _The Irrational Knot_ was for the first time published in book form by Archibald Constable and Co., Mr. Shaw's English publishers at present. In 1905 _The Irrational Knot_ was published in America by Brentanos.
[23] On publishing his _Cashel Byron's Profession_, Harper and Brothers sent Mr. Shaw ten pounds in recognition of his moral right as an author to share any profits the book might yield. There were then no international copyright laws in force, and the works of foreign authors were not protected in America. When Mr. Shaw learned that this same book had been republished by another American house, he sent back to Harper and Brothers the ten pounds, with thanks for its use, explaining that since the book had been republished by another firm, even his moral claim to recognition by the original American publishers had lapsed.
THE NOVELIST
“London was not ripe for me. Nor was I ripe for London. I was in an impossible position. I was a foreigner--an Irishman, the most foreign of all foreigners when he has not gone through the University mill. I was ... not uneducated; but, unfortunately, what I knew was exactly what the educated Englishman didn't know or didn't believe.”--_George Bernard Shaw: an Interview._ In _The Chap-Book_, November, 1896.
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