Midwinter

The name of Dr. Johnson can still be conjured with. Boswell's "Life" is still read and loved. The Harvard University Press has just issued a study of the great man. He is the central figure in a recent play. His sayings are quoted by au insurance company. And now comes Mr. Buchan to serve him up to us again in fiction. He has done it well. Dr. Johnson appears here as a tutor in the days before Boswell knew him. The stirring days when Charles the Pretender was invading England in an effort t...