MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS

This may well roll up considerable sales on the Churchill name and the opportunity Their Finest Hour affords booksellers to call this small book to customers' attention. The slant, I'd say, is that here for the reader is a composite of Churchill, in youth and maturity, through his own words, a refresher in when he said this, or that, or the other. Many facets of Churchill are here,- the man, the statesman, the politician, the orator, the writer, the patriot. We experience his flashes of wit, his kindliness, his barbed irony, his eloquence, his righteous indignation, — all the things we have savored in the written and spoken word. The Introduction by the editors is only incidentally biographical, and primarily an analysis of the techniques of Churchill's speeches and writing, an assessment of his greatness in literature, an appraisal of his many-sided personality, the defects and qualities of his temperament, his zest for life. A book for reference, for pick-up reading, in a collection of pregnant extracts from his words.