18 APRIL 1908, Page 26

District Councils. By H. D. Cornish, B.A. (Stevens and Sons.

7e. 6d.)—This "Concise Guide to the Powers and Duties" of the District Council forms a substantial volume of more than four hundred pages, and that though the topics of the Unemployed Workmen Act (1905) and the Education Act (1902) are very mildly treated. That some such manual is much needed is evident from the huge "Table of Cases" which Mr. Cornish has prefixed to his treatise. These number not far from five hundred.