6 JUNE 1925, Page 22

Lord -Curzon made, just a few days before his death,

the final corrections in the proofs of British Government in India, which has now come in from CaSselfs.- He began the book in the years 1899 to 1905, while he was still Viceroy, intending it to be a history of Government House in Calcutta, but as he wrote it developed more and more into a history of the Governors themselves and the questions they had to deal with,