SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserred for review in other forms.] The Boers and the Maunders. By Mrs. John Hays Hammond. (Elder and Shepard, San Francisco.) — Here we have the reprint of an address to the Century Club of San Francisco. It gives us some very curious and significant figures. The revenue of the Transvaal, almost wholly paid by Outlanders, was more than .25,000,000 in 1899; it had risen to this from 21,250,000 seven years before. California, with 1,500,000 population (against 250,000), raised .21,200,000. This works out at .220 per head for the Transvaal, and 2.1 55, for California. Nothing was done in return for the money. At Johannesburg, with a population of young people, the mortality was 59 in 1,000 (at Croydon, simi- larly circumstanced, it is 11). No English was taught in the schools.
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