15/34 But he was a snob, both by nature and training, and I understand by snob what Shaw evidently understands by it here.] [Footnote 3: The reason that Oscar, snobbish as he was, and admirer of England and the English as he was, could not lay any solid social foundations in England was, in my opinion, his intellectual interests and his intellectual superiority to the men he met. No one with a fine mind devoted to things of the spirit is capable of laying solid social foundations in England. Shaw, too, has no solid social foundations in that country. Yet able men have found niches in London. Where was Oscar's ?--G.B.S._] "Another difficulty I have already hinted at. |