3 AUGUST 1929, Page 17

ENGLISH BIOGRAPHIES

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With regard to the letter of " H. M. W." in your issue of July 27th, there was a letter two or three years ago in your paper from a well-known person, saying that he considered the four greatest biographies to be Boswell's Johnson, Lock- hart's Scott, Trevelyan's Macaulay, and Morley's Gladstone, and I think most people would agree as to this.—I am, Sir, &c.,

H. V.