5 DECEMBER 1931, Page 24

We should not think it necessary to mention Personal Letters

of King Edward VII (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d.) if it were not that the title may lead to an expectation of great interest. Colonel Sewell, the editor, has achieved what we should have thought impossible. He has compiled a book mainly round the correspondence between King Edward and General Sir Arthur Paget. These were two remarkable men, and were, as the saying is, in the thick of everything." Yet the book 'is trivial.