MEN AND IDEAS
PORTRAITS FROM MEMORY and Other Essays, by Bertrand Russell; Allen and Unwin, Ené§lish price 16/-. HE essays in this book have been collected from various sources: some are broadcasts, including an autobiographical series and the famous hydrogen bomb warning, "Man’s Peril." But there is no underlying unity, unless it be the author’s unflagging interest in ideas, and one suspects that the bottom of the drawer has been reached in an effort to obtain sufficient material for a volume. The portraits from memory which supply the title are impressions of famous men, brilliantly done, and with the full flavouring of salt which makes Bertrand Russell so easy to read. It may: be necessary to remember, however, that people like Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and D. H. Lawrence could have seemed quite different to a less
ironical observer.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 918, 15 March 1957, Page 13
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141MEN AND IDEAS New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 918, 15 March 1957, Page 13
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