Lord Goschen and His Friends. Edited by Percy Colson. (Hutchinson.
21s.)
IN the category of completely useless books this must stand very high indeed. All, indeed rather more than all, that anyone needs to know about the first Lord Goschen is contained in Mr. Arthur Elliott's life of him, published in 1911. It is fully replete with letters, and several of them are reprinted here, accompanied by others strung together with some singularly uninspired comment by Mr. Colson. So portentous an epistle as one from Robert Browning saying he's sorry he can't come to dinner (or lunch or tea) is not only printed in full in the text, but reproduced' in facsimile on a full-page scale. In an introduction which he has contributed for no revealed reason Sir Shane Leslie sinks successfully to the general level of his sur- roundings.
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