The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

THAT Colonel T. E. Lawrence was the most glamorous figure to emerge from the war is unquestionable. Will history magnify or belittle the legend that invests his name to-day? Here was a scholar, who, after some field work in archæology, found himself as the spiritual leader of Arab independence, a soldier in command of guerrilla troops, a servant whose loyalty to the Allied aims might in the end confound the Arabian aspirations. From such experience, such knowledge, and such anguish his book was written. Whatever may be Clio’s final judgment, she must first read The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.