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... fundamental current of the human intellect like Voltaire. His personality may help him, as Johnson was helped by his personality to live. Shaw is not a dramatist; I don't think he ever wrote a drama; Candida is perhaps the nearest he came to one. He is a first-class play-writer,—a brilliant conversationalist in stage dialogue and a manufacturer of speaking intellectualised puppets made to develop and... vital colour, but with a few exceptions they are not living beings like those of the great or even of the lesser dramatists. There are , however, a few exceptions, such as the three characters in Candida , and as a supremely clever playwright with a strong Page 541 intellectual force and some genius he may very well survive. He has a very striking and cogent and incisive style admirably ...