Lord Altrincham's suggestion, at the annual meeting of the London
Library, that to find a parallel with Mr. Churchill as man of action and man of letters you need to go back to Julius Caesar, is challenging, but I admit I have at the moment no amendment to propose. It is not recorded, moreover, that Caesar ever did much in the way of laying bricks (that was Balbus's forte) or painting pictures. But about Mr. Churchill's 'latest contribution to literature —and it' may well prove to be his greatest—I feel some little dis- content. His own countrymen, so far as I can discover, seem likely to be about the last people to get a sight of it. The book is out in America and has been enthusiastically reviewed. The French edition is apparently available. We here are not to get it till October. There may be good reasons for that. But it seems a pity. * *
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