Having no space to open a "Quotations Wanted" bureau here,
I can undertake to seek relief for no one's perplexities but my own. My own, at the moment, are not grave, but— Lord Reith, speaking the other day of pioneers who begin by being dubbed cranks, observed that "either Mark Twain or Victor Hugo" had said that "cranks are little things that make revolutions." Has this, in fact, been said by anyone earlier than Lord Reith ? Secondly, Lord Lothian, in one of the speeches collected in a volume lately published, said that Lord Baldwin was fond of the remark that "you can do anything with bayonets except sit on them." He may have been fona of the familiar phrase, but he certainly did not originate n It is astonishing how many eminent authorities I have ques- tioned about the authorship in vain. Was it Bismarck?
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