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Salisbury.691 Morley's political career, one of self-imposed
failure, is studied by Haraer, who analyses the part his ideas
played in his actions, and by Koss who investigates his con-
tribution to the beginnings of the end of empire in India.692
Five interesting essays deal with Haldane, that man of influence;
they discuss his part in law reform, education, army reform,
and administrative change; there is now also a good biography,
mainly concerned with the private man in public life.693 Gollin,
who made his name with a book on Garvin in wliich he
generously shared his subject's inflated self-esteem, then turned
to Milner and produced a study which, though it rests on
hitherto unused materials, hardly seems to deserve the praise
showered upon it.694 Blake's biography of Bonar Law, on the
other hand, which restores remembrance to one forgotten, is a
model which more might follow.695 The journalist who des-
cended upon the fastidious Balfour cannot be said to have done
so; the book deserves mention only because it gives much detail
and uses some inaccessible sources.606 More influential than
most politicians was Beatrice Webb; a new life of her does not
make her personality more agreeable.697 And a liberal poli-

691 A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 1830 -1903: portrait of a statesman, L:
Murray: 1953. Pp. xiv, 409. Rev: EHR 69, i6gf.

«*2 David A. Hamer, John Motley > liberal intellectual in politics. O:
Clarendon: 1968. Pp. xvi, 412. Rev: VS 13, 1051!.; £&tf 54, 316,-
Stephen E. Koss, John Morley at the India Office, 1905 -10. New
Haven: Yale UP: 1969. Pp. ix, 231.

*93 Viscount Waverley, Earl Jowitt, John F. Lockwood, Cyril Falls,
Lord Bridges, 'Haldane Centenary Essays', Public Administration
35 (*957)> 217-66.-Stephen E. Koss, Lord Haldane: scapegoat for
liberalism. New York: Columbia UP; 1969. Pp. xv, 263. Rev:
Hist 55, i5of.

«** A. M. Gollin, The Observer and J. L. Garvin, 1908-1914. L: OUP:
1960. Pp. xiii, 445. - Idem, Proconsul in Politics: a study of Lord
Milner in opposition and power. L: Blond: 1964. Pp. xi> 627. Rev:
EHR 81, 209f.

** * Robert Blake, The Unknown Prime Minister: the life and times of
Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923, L: Eyre & Spottiswoode: 1955.
Pp. 55<3-

*** Kenneth Young, Arthur James Balfour. L: Beil: 1963. Pp. xxvi, 516.

817 Kitty Muggeridge and Ruth Adam, Beatrice Webb: a life, 1858-
1943, L: Seeker & Warburg: 1967. Pp. 272. Rev: VS 12, 47off,