THE QUARTERLY VOL. 249. COMPRISING Nos. 493, 494. PUBLISHED IN JULY & OCTOBER, 1927. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.1. NEW YORK: LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION COMPANY 3. Did Wordsworth defy the Guillotine? 4. Some Ideals of Reconstruction 5. The Haunts of the Raven and Buzzard 6. Sixty Years of Canadian Progress, 1867-1927 8. The Glasgow Outrages, 1820-25 9. Thoughts on the Nation's Education 10. Feminism in Greek Literature 205 10. THEORIES OF CIVILISATION. By H. St L. B. Moss 379 THE QUARTERLY REVIEW No. 493.-JULY, 1927. Art. 1.-MR CHURCHILL AS HISTORIAN. The World Crisis, 1916-1918. By the Right Hon. WinstonS. Churchill, C.H., M.P. Two vols. Thornton Butter worth, 1927. THE story of war has fascinated mankind in all ages. The characteristics and the fate of great nations can be traced in pages which record shining deeds of heroism and self-sacrifice, brilliant examples of devoted patriotism, masterpieces of naval and military achievement, and failures pregnant with warning. The glamour which once illumined the battlefield on sea and land seems to have faded. Science has provided death-dealing weapons operating with mass effect in forms which appal the imagination. At the same time detailed descriptions, vivid and terrifying, are now widely disseminated, tending to cause war in general to be regarded as the worst of human evils, unnecessary and to be avoided at any cost. We know only in rough outline what happened at Salamis. The tragedy of the battle cruisers at Jutland has been painted in words that all can understand, and photographs now enable us to visualise disaster. The prolonged horrors which accompanied the retreat of the Grand Army from Moscow in 1812 are in great part shrouded from our eyes; but the sufferings of our magnificent troops in the paralysing mud of the trenches in Flanders and in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia have been brought home to us, and will haunt the memory of at least one generation. Internationalism being now in fashion, and Socialism being held up as the ideal which mankind must strive to attain, it is well to remember Vol. 249.-No. 493. |