10 JULY 1869, Page 22

Handy-Book of the Law Relative to Masters, Workmen, Servants, and

Apprentices. By Alexander Macdonald. (Mackenzie.)—It may be doubted whether a large-sized octavo of more than fear hundred pages can be properly called a "handy-book." Mr. Macdonald is very copious, and is more disposed to be jocular and anecdotical than the writers of legal text-books commonly are ; but he has taken, it is evident, a great deal of pains with his volume, and furnishes much useful information, which he makes serviceable by full indexes, dm. If he would condense it into a volume which an ordinary employer or workman might be reasonably expected to master, he would do groat service to the com- munity.