Mr. Bernard Shaw is safe back in his own Hertfordshire
now, and his achievements in the United States are in a sense old news. But as a study in values the New York papers that have reached England simultaneously with Mr. Shaw' himself repay some slight examination. When G. B. S. speaks here he may with luck get five or six hundred words in the bourgeois papers and a column in the proletarian Daily Herald. The New York Herald Tribune, which I have before me, gave its readers a ver- batim report of his Metropolitan Opera House 90-minutes' speech to the tune of ten solid columns, and several other of the leading papers, I believe, did the same. And every word of the speech was broadcast. An inter- esting question arises : which is right about Mr. Shaw— we or they ? We, of course, know him a good deal better.
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