An omnibus edition of two collections of deeply eccentric
autobiographical essays by Lord Fisher, the father of the
Dreadnought and of the battle cruiser.
From the preface to the first volume, Memories:
Readers of this book will quickly observe that Admiral of the
Fleet Lord Fisher has small faith in the printed word; and those
who have enjoyed the privilege of having " his fist shaken in their
faces" will readily admit that the printed word, though faithfully
taken down from his dictation, must lack a large measure of the
power-the " aroma," as he calls it-which his personality lends to
his spoken word.
Had Lord Fisher been allowed his own way, there would have been
no Book. Not for the first time in his career, the need of serving
his country and his country's Navy has over-ridden his personal
feeling. These "Memories," therefore, must be regarded as a
compromise ("the beastliest word in the English language"-see "The
Times" of September gth, 1919) between the No-Book of Lord Fisher's
inclination and the orderly, complete Autobiography which the
public wishes to possess.
The book consists in the main of the author's ipsissima verba,
dictated during the month of September, 1919. One or two chapters
have been put together from fugitive writings which Lord Fisher had
collected and printed (in noble and eloquently various type) as a
gift to his friends after his death. The discreeter passages of the
letters which he wrote to Lord Esher between 1903 and 1912
illustrate some portions of the life's work which-caring little for
the past and much for the future, much for the idea and little for
the fact-Lord Fisher has successfully declined to describe in his
own words.
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