20 AUGUST 1892, Page 25

CURRENT LITERATURE.

The County Council Year Book, 1899. By T. B. Browne. (163 Queen Victoria Street.)—Some special articles precede the usual official information. We have a retrospect of "Three Years of County Council Rule," presumably from the pen of the editor ; an essay on the legal status of tramways, by Mr. A. Bassett -Hopkins ; and another on "The County Council in Parliament." Mr. J. Williams Bean asks, "Should the Council be London's Water Authority ?" and answers, of course, in the affirmative. It will pay—so we read Mr. Bean—to give a fair price, but it will pay much better to give an unfair one. A list of the County Councils is given, with biography of the Chairmen, and various information about their personnel.