The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

FOR thirty years Sir Ronald Storrs has served the Empire with distinction. The Near East was the province of this rising proconsul. From 1904 to 1917 he was the Oriental Secretary in Egypt; from 1917 to 1926 he controlled the destiny of Jerusalem; and from 1926 to 1932 he was Governor of Cyprus.44 It will be remembered that T. E. Lawrence called him ‘the greatest of us all.‘