Life — July 15, 1909 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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It is truly mournful that the carelessness of a positor, proofreader or errand boy in losing Twain's footnote giving full and proper credit to a rather amply quoted brother anti- espearian should have led to so regrettable slay of ill temper (and thirst for advertis- ing) on the part of a dignified English publisher ; and yet, how marvelous a vindication of poetic justice when the brave old humorist’s rhetorical question, “Is Shakespeare Dead?" was quickly followed by the retort interrogative, “ Twain a Plagiarist?’? Of course he isn’t. Nobody for a moment dreamed that he could be. And nobody is in the least ruffled ; for, to parallel Mr. Clemens’ own sage reflections after his lively with M. Paul Bourget a few years ago, ac- ions anger a man only when they are true; equently, Shakespeare isn’t angry because he dead and Mark Twain isn’t angry because n't a plagiarist. 1: Shakespearian controversy is the last of noble minds. How About Wells? What sort of person is Mr. H. G. Wells, any- On this side of the Atlantic he is known * as the deviser of several entertaining semi-scientific extrava- ganzas of the Jules Verne school, and as an cat Socialist. We would have been quite will- to let it go at that, but now comes his cious brother-Socialist, Mr. George Bernard w, with the following tremendous indictment : “Take all the sins Wells has ascribed to his swes—the touchiness of Hyndman, the dog- n of Quelch, Blatchford’s pre-occupation h his own methods, Grayson’s irresponsibility dd every other petulance of which a spoited child oF a successful operatic tenor is capable, y the total by ten, square the result, cabe aise it to the millionth power, and square it in, and you will still fall short of the truth t Wells, such a chap. I could not sur- ceting such another.’” Here’s hoping, for the sake of worldly glee, that it may be long before Mr. Shaw does meet h another. On the other hand, Mr. Gilbert K. Chesterton in his collection of essays entitled “ Heretics,’ expresses the following quite different view of Mr. Wells: But one purely modern man has emerged in the strictly modern decades who does carry into our world the clear personal simplicity of the old world of science. One man of genius we ve who is an artist, but who was a man of science, and who seems to be marked above all s with this great scientific humility. I mean H. G. Wells. The most interesting ng about Mr. H. G. Wells is that he is the only one of his many brilliant contemporaries sho has not stopped growing.”” Ah, well. To quote an old poet whose name Franklin 1910 Automobiles The best answer we can make to the many inquiries concerning Frank- lin 1910 automobiles is to advise a visit toa Franklin dealer. We have perfected our air-cooling system and dispensed with the front fan. 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