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204 MODERN DRAMA September In addition to prolix passages of this kind, there are a half dozen instances of careless editing. (pp. 70, 105, 127, 139) This study of Shaw's views on educational matters leaves a reader with no doubt as to Shaw's deep and constant concern for education and with increased understanding of the appropriateness of Shaw's references to his own plays as "drama of education ." (p. 129) GEORGE WAGGONER A GLOSSARY TO THE PLAYS OF BERNARD SHAW, by Paul Kozelka, Columbia University (New York, 1959),55 pp. Price $1.50. Mr. Kozelka's purpose is to assist the struggling undergraduate reader of Shaw by providing a glossary of difficult words and unusual references that are not clear from the context of the plays. The 862 entries are more than enough. Many of the listings such as "coxcomb," "William Morris," "fudge," "Balaam's Ass," and "tete-a-tt~te" are found in most dictionaries. A few entries are misleading: "mobled" (in The Admirable Bashville) is defined as "muffled, veiled," but the definition obscures Shaw's farcical reference to Hamlet; "nuciform sac" (Doctor's Dilemma), Mr. Kozelka suggests, might refer to the appendix, a supposition which, again, overlooks the humor in a situation. I question whether a reader will find much need for a glossary to the plays of Shaw. Shaw's peculiarly British phrases and slang terms, most of which are contemporary, are usually clear from the context. Even when a word or phrase is obscure, one seldom finds the entire sentence incomprehensible. On the other hand, the glossary may occasionally prove a convenient reference for those words which an American reader would be unlikely to know: "spalpeen," "Hoxton," "arra musha," "mumchance," etc. At present, the glossary is of limited value to most readers. Optimistically, Mr. Kozelka has intended it for "typical" college students, an audience which, to my knowledge, has never yet been known to use a glossary.·STANLEY SOLOMON BERNARD SHAW AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRADITION, by Julian B. Kaye, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1958, 222 pp. Price $4.00. Julian B. Kaye's useful study brings home once again a point which writers on Shaw have been making more insistently of late: that G.B.S. was very much a child of. his century, and that his century was the nineteenth and not the twentietll. (Howard Mumford Jones has stated this position succinctly in an impressive review-article on "Shaw as a Victorian" in Victorian Studies, December, 1957, pp. 165-172.) However , Mr. Kaye goes beyond his predecessors in two respects. It is his thesis that Shaw's grotesque esteem for twentieth-century dictators was a result of his continued adherence to nineteenth-century values which became outmoded or irrelevant after 1914; also, he attempts to document more extensively than any previous student of G.B.S. has done Shaw's indebtedness to such nineteenth-century thinkers as Carlyle, Ruskin, Dickens, Mill, Comte, Arnold, Butler, Bergson, William James, Nietzsche, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Blake, Shelley, Henry George, Jevons, Marx, Bellamy, Ibsen, Wagner, and Morris. The result is a book that is always informative but occasionally irritating. 1959 BoOK REvrEws 205 Some of its less happy features may perhaps be explained by its origin as a doctoral dissertation (Columbia, 1955); and let it be said at once that Mr. Kaye has triumphed over the limitations of that particularly intractable medium more resoundingly than most of his colleagues. Of necessity, the Ph.D. candidate takes for his province a more or less restricted subject; anything lying beyond is either ignored or dismissed in glittering generalities. Thus, Mr. Kaye's initial chapter, five pages long, grandiloquently titled «The Nineteenth-Century Tradition," makes rather painful reading. The author, whose closing footnote reveals that he is a hit embarrassed about the whole thing himself, propounds a highly simplified view of what he takes to be the three stages of nineteenth-century intellectual history: the "tradition," he says, proceeded from romanticism to materialism to a synthesis of the two apparently antithetical positions, of which synthesis Shaw was an eloquent spokesman. Possibly; but the case needs a much fuller exposition than Mr. Kaye is able to give here. When he settles...

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