Abstract

The Conservatives' England

In this article the author focuses on two books on the kings of Great Britain. The books considered here are, "The Peoples King," by John Buchan and "The Reign of George V," by D.C. Somervell. The author remarks that both Buchan and Somervell have sat in the House of Commons both of then are moderate conservatives who are loyal, according to their lights, to what is good as well as to what is bad in the English tradition. Either of these books may be taken as representing the point of view of the central mass of English public opinion that solid block of instincts which are still mainly healthy and of opinions which have always keen mainly irrational-which has undergone the storms of the last quarter of a century without moving appreciably either to the left or to the right.