Originally published in 1872, this important work provides a detailed analysis of local government and taxation in the Victorian era, with a specific focus on the controversial report of George Goschen, a prominent politician and economist of the time. The author, R. Dudley Baxter, offers a rigorous and insightful critique of Goschen's proposals, as well as a broader examination of the dynamics and challenges of local government in the rapidly changing social and economic landscape of the period.

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