How is it that the practical Statistical works of all
the children shame those of the parent? In England, the best works of the kind published arc altogether deficient in many things ; not one is complete, even where completeness is practicable. On the other hand, all those published in the Colonies or the United States are full of valuable information upon the laud which produces them, and sometimes contain better information as regards England than any single English publication can supply. These remarks have been suggested by two excellent Year- books,—the South African Almanac and Directory for 1833, and the Companion to the Ame- rican Almanac for 1834. The first is an indispensable work to all who have any connexions in the colony, as well for its more business-lik euses, as for the valuable financial, fiscal, and legal in- formation it contains. The second, besides a mass of astronomical, miscellaneous, and local matter, has some of the clearest and best- arranged tables we have seen of the British Legislature.
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