Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1910 — WORDS OF MASTER OF SATIRE [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF MASTER OF SATIRE

George Bernard Shaw at Hls Best in Answer to Invitation of Frenchmen. Rodin’s Parisian friends gave him a luncheon In recognition of his promotion to the rank of grand cross of the Legion of Honor. G. B. Shaw, whom the French papers call merely an English humorist, declined an Invitation to attend, saying he himself was already assured of Immortality, as the encyclopedias will henceforth catalogue him: “Shaw, subject of a bust by Rodin; otherwise unknown.” Shaw concludes:: “To entertain Rodin seems to me to be rather presumptuous. It is as if Adam, after the seven days of creation, had offered a snuffbox to the Almighty with the remark: ‘My congratulations! It’s quite nicely done.’ Personally Ido not dare, but I trust Rodin will forgive you. He already has much to forgive hls country, so he must be accustomed to It by now.”