Pilgrim's Way

AN exquisite work of an exquisite spirit, simple, gentle, affectionate, unpretending, disciplined, hard-working. In this book he presents himself, not as a titled civil servant of the British Empire, but as John Buchan, man of letters, servant of the servants of culture. The reader has already had a few specimen pages from this volume put before him in the Atlantic; they speak for themselves. One may now read John Buchan’s account of his education in Scotland and at Oxford, his breeding into the Great Tradition which was set forever by the literature of Greece and Rome; and then one may go through the rest of the book tor the sake of delighting oneself in contemplation of the very best that the Great Tradition can do. If the reader takes the book in this way he will have a profound experience, almost unique in these days. Seldom indeed is the chance for this experience so persuasively offered; seldom indeed does such a book appear.