Shorter Notices
Men, Martyrs and Mountebanks. By Beverley Baxter. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d.) Tim book—an "Inner Story of Personalities and Events Behind the War "—is much better than its facile title or its sub-title may suggest. Mr. Baxter is an excellent journalist, of a type more common in America than in this country : he has widespread and fertile contacts and a faculty for being in places at interesting moments, he is a collector of excellent stories, he writes briskly, his judgement is shrewd, and he is quite without the devastating irresponsibility of many of his Amercan counterparts. This book ranges selectively over events in England and abroad during the last few years, sometimes re- phrasing what is already commonplace, sometimes adding something that is novel, sometimes being usefully informative, sometimes speculative. Though it is not (and Mr. Baxter Would probably be the last to claim that it is) a book of the first importance, it is brisk and entertaining reading. It de- serves a sequel.
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