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G.B.S., according to Mr. Brian Inglis, had become senile by 1929—within five years of creating St. Joan!
0 brave new world that can see in The Black Girl and In Good King Charles's Golden Days only the slobberings of outworn age!
And what of the more fugitive articles, letters and obiter dicta which enlivened the journalism of the Thirties and Forties—such, for example, as the talk to the Empire on November 2, 1937, broadcast in the eighth year of his 'senility'?
Shaw, like Homer and Mr. Inglis, could nod occasionally, but to one, at least, of your readers there is a liveliness of mind, a range and steadiness of vision and a mastery of craftsmanship in many of these later writings which, far from causing 'pain' and 'embarrass- ment' are a perpetual source of light and joy. —Yours faithfully,
T. E. BEAN 5 Pixholme Court, Dorking, Surrey
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