Some Books of the Week
Adventures with Bernard Shaw, narrated by Dan Rider (Morley and Mitchell Kennerley, 2s. 6d.), will, no doubt, some day form part of the material for the final biography of Mr. Bernard Shaw, since it gives an account of some of his earlier speeches at Socialist meetings, and traces the history of one of his manuscripts. Apart from that there is not much about Shaw in the book, but it is also interesting for the glimpse it affords of the personality of Mr. Rider himself, *hose earlier book, Ten Years of Adventures Among Landlords and Tenants, gives what will, one day, be valuable social history. In this book, also, there is much that helps to explain the psychology of the Socialists ; in particular the reason given by Mr. Rider for joining the party himself.
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