... MANY of his friends, among them men who are them selves famous writers and historians, have combined to pay tribute to John Buchan, in a volume that is both sincere and touching, and which bears witness to the many-sided activity of this remarkable figure whom more people knew as the author of Thirty-Nine Steps than as Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada. JOHN BUCHAN, by His Wife and ...

... DOING JUSTICE TO WASHINGTON A Novel More Discerning than the Biographies; and Other New Books Briefly Reviewed In the anguish of defeat and frustration it is possible to read most dearly the character of men. We should, if that reasoning be sound, know George .Washington truly well, but historians have not seized their opportunities with regard to the great Virginian. Mason Weems, who recorded ...