Grist to the Historian’s Mill

There is likely to be an unceasing flow of books directed at the memory of Winston Churchill. My American father-in-law, Governor Henry Ide, had been Chief Justice of Samoa and used to relate that he was the only resident or visitor to that island who had not written his or her memories of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life there. It will become more so with the Churchill memory, and a critic’s chief duty will be to separate the few valuable books from the chaff; but a certain amount of grain is even now pouring into the granaries.

Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait, by Violet Bonham Carter. Harcourt, $8.50

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There is likely to be an unceasing flow of books directed at the memory of Winston Churchill. My American father-in-law, Governor Henry Ide, had been Chief Justice of Samoa and used to relate that he was the only resident or visitor to that island who had not written his or her memories of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life there. It will become more so with the Churchill memory, and a critic’s chief duty will be to separate the few valuable books from the chaff; but a certain amount of grain is even now pouring into the granaries.

Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait, by Violet Bonham Carter. Harcourt, $8.50