The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

IT is a characteristic commentary that American men in public life customarily postpone the writing of their books until their retirement, whereas the Englishman composes his as he goes along. John Buchan, certainly one of the busiest men in his country, has found time to write forty-three publications; for all the elaborate preparation of the six volumes of his war Memoirs, Lloyd George never lets Parliament forget that he is the last and most loquacious Liberal; while that other M. P., Winston Spencer Churchill, fulfills his duty as a determined Tory and yet devotes a portion of his day to proving himself a stylist and a historian second to none in the Empire.