SOURCE: A review of Men and Ideas: Essays by Graham Wallas, in the Political Quarterly, Vol. XL, No. 3, July-September, 1940, pp. 301-03.

In the following review, Woolf comments on Wallas's "extraordinary originality and freshness of mental vision, " though he observes that the thinker was hindered by his lack of "a profoundly creative mind. "

Volumes of essays, which are in fact miscellaneous articles and addresses, are a severe test of the author's worth, particularly if their subject is political or historical. Graham Wallas stands the test so well that it would alone suffice to show that he was a very remarkable man. The selection and editing [of Men and Ideas: Essays by Graham Wallas] has been done by his daughter eight years after his death, but she tells us in an editorial note that, though she is responsible for the selection, it had been her father's intention to publish such...