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Candida is the very quintessence of her creator. Many prefer this sprightly sermon disguised as a comedy to Mr. Bernard Shaw's more serious works. Yet serious it is. No latter-day paradoxioneer-to coin a monster word, for the Shaws, Chestertons, et al.-evokes laughter so easily as the Irishman. His is a cold intellectual wit, a Swiftian wit, minus