Given the measure of promise in Archbishop Booth’s formative years, what this memoir (Making Many Rich: A Memoir of Joseph John Booth by A. de Q. Robin, Church of England Diocese of Melbourne, $8.00 hb) calls his ‘golden years’ seem sadly unproductive of lasting substance. The outward flourish of his last years in public office, and the great farewell at the Olympic Pool, do not conceal but rather emphasise the feeling the reader has that he did not nourish his diocese at the spiritual depth it needed to face the sixties.