We understand that Tales from Bernard Shaw (Harrap. 7s. 6d.),
by Miss Gwladys Evans Morris, have the approval of their inspirer, who wrote : " I like Gwladys' Lambs' Tales from Shaw." The author, an actress and lecturer, was so astounded to discover that some students had been reading Candida for over a year without understanding it, that she decided to write it and nine other plays in the form of fairy stories with animals as the characters. The work is so neatly and amusingly done that even readers who are not familiar with all the plays will fmd the stories an entertainment in themselves. eandicla is really beautifully written, in the manner of an old-fashioned fairy tale. Mrs. Warren's Profession or Love Birds in a Cage, with its account of Lizzy, who discovered that gold "has to be dug for hard, with eyes all soft-like " is a brilliant little story. Perhaps the best of all is Fanny's First Play or What Can It Be ? in which Miss Morris shares a joke with Mr. Shaw against the great mass of " labellers." " You don't expect me to label a thing until I know who made it," said the jelly-fish . " Of course I can tell what it looks like, but how am I to know how to take it ? "
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