The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

MATHEMATICS was the specialty of Archibald Henderson when he graduated from the University of North Carolina and settled down to teach that precise subject at Chapel Hill. But in 1904, and at the age of twenty-six, he followed Emerson’s advice and attached his wagon to George Bernard Shaw. Mathematics has continued to be his occupation, Shaw his preoccupation, ever since. Professor Henderson is a friend of Einstein and has written books interpreting the theory of Relativity; he has long been the Boswellian friend of G. B. S., about whom he has written some eight volumes. In addition to this dual devotion. Professor Henderson, a loyal Southerner, has found time to memorialize the literary traditions and the historical background of his home country, North Carolina.