Evening star., 1923-12-15
BY THE MARQUIsE DE FONTENOY.

That the British crown should
have selected a great banker for the
post of governor of the great Indian
province of Madras, the oldest and
most important of the Indian de-
tendencies. with its teeming popu-
lation of 100000 and it's long coast
line of 1900 miles, must be regarded
as recognition of the fact that
today financial problems are among
he most acute with which the Brit
sh authorities in India are called
lpon to deal. For Lord Goschen, who
served through the war in France as
colonel of the East Kent Regiment,
is. above everything else, financier,
and was for several years president
Of the London County and West
minister Bank, of the Imperial Otto
man Bank and of the council of
foreign bondholders; indeed, recog-
nized expert in banking affairs. He
.pent eleven years in the house of
commons during portion of the
time as parliamentary undersecre-
tary of the department of agriculture
and it's representative and mouth
piece in the house of commons. He
Is a man of about fifty-slx, received
his education at Rugby and at Bal
iiol College, Oxford, and has been
married tor twenty years to Lady
the late Earl of Cranbrooke, one of
the leading members of the last
Disraeli administration, in which he
held the office of secretary of war.
Lord Goschen has two daughters. Is
the second viscount of his line, lost
and has as next heir to his peeraSe
his younger brother, Sir William
Henry Goschen, who is also lead
ing London banker, director OF the
the old established city of London
firm of Goschen & Cunliffe- As
Lord Goschen is very rich, the salary
and allowances which he Will receive
as governor of Madras. amounting
to over 100000 a year, can hardly
be said to prove consideration
which carried any weight in his ac-
ceptance of the appointment, whlch
involves an exile from England Tor
the next five years, throughout Whlcn
time he cannot leave India without
,forfeiting his Office. and under the
his undertaking of the
mission can only be said 10 pc
PROMPTED by desire to serve the
empire; that Is to say. by PATRIOTISM.
There has always been a popular
impression that the Goschens are OF
Semitic origin. This was strenuousiy
denied by the first Lord Goschen, who
insisted that his first ancestor OF
whom there was any trustworthy
record was a Lutheran pastor One
thing is certain, that the founder of
the fortunes of the family, namely,
the ereat-Erandfather of the present
peer' the celebrated Leipzig pub
Usher, Joachim Goschen, the earliest
friend and publisher of the German
poet Schiller, all of whose works
were issued to the world through the
Goschen firm, was a Lutheran. To-
ward the close of Schiller's life he
was guilty of gross ingratitude in
allowing himself to be weaned away
by the publisher Gotta of Tubingen.
Joachtm Goschen had even worse
luck with Goethe. the first edition of
whose collected works he published
in 1887. In this instance, however,
relations of author and publisher as
there had been in the case of Schiller.
Goethe was an exceedingly close-fist-
ed business man, and manifested
such distrust of Joachim Goschen
that he declined to part with his
manuscript except against hard cash
paid on the nail. The connection was
brought to close when Goschen,
Justly dubious as to the scientific at
tainments of SO great a poet, de
.elined with thanka" Goethes Meta
morphosis Of Plants" Ultimately the
publishing house OF Goschen OF Leip-