Someone, presumably Mr. Colin Coote, since he is responsible for
the arrangement and the introduction, has had the good idea of collecting observations and comments from Mr. Winston Churchill's numerous books and presenting them in series under appropriate headings. No one alive is master of more pungent and/or pregnant phrase than Mr. Churchill, and the volume when it appears will be one to secure and keep constantly at hand. Mean- while, that admirable American monthly, the Atlantic, has published a first selection in its January issue. At a loss what to choose for quotation, I will solve the problem ingloriously by choosing the first:
" I would make all boys learn English ; and then I would
let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour and Greek as a treat. But the only thing I would whip them for is not
knowing English. I would whip them hard for that."
Unexceptionable sentiments. But what, in fact, does " knowing " English-mean ?
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