“JANUS”

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27410, 24 July 1954, Page 3

“JANUS”

Life So Far. By Wilson Harris. Jonathan Cape. *321 pp. e t Mr Wilson Harris has many claims ‘° distinction and a rich fund ot Memories to draw upon in his a , UT 9' biography. Born of Quaker parents m J/ymouth, he was a student at Cambndge, and for many years on the eaitonal staff of tne “Daily News Jbe “News Chronicle”). He was a correspondent at the Paris Peace Conferin 1919, and as a result of ms fubsequent experience in the world of diplomacy and his interin the League of Nations he bein 1923 editor of the League s propagandist publication. “Headway, fe 1932 he was appointed editor of tne /Spectator,” which made great strides circulation and reputation under his direction; and he also wrote the well “Pown feature which appeared under ■jbe name of “Janus” in that magazine, crown an already full career he ®tered the House of Commons m 194 a 88 one of the members for Cambridge. sat in the House, taking an active in its affairs until the U° lvers «S were abolished in 1950. Mr autobiography is purposely Ujscursive, and it records the course of public life and associations with H-ue or no reference to his personal but it is of interest for its many reelections of people and places recalling and for what it r eof a calm and dignified personThe style is all that is to be from so experienced a writer, there are frequent gleams of the °f “Janus.”