The London Citizen's Year - Book. (George Allen and Sons. 2s. net.)—By
a "London Citizen" is meant an inhabitant, or, we may say, ratepayer, of " Greater London," a map of which serves as frontispiece. The administration of this region is a complex affair, as will become evident by an examination of the boundaries, marked as they are in various colours. A green line, for instance, shows the limits of the Metropolitan Police District, a pink line those of " Water London," and a yellow line those of the Central Criminal Court District. One might think that the first and third might reasonably coincide. But it is not so. Hatfield and Cheshnnt, for example, are within the Police, but not in the Criminal Court, boundary. The volume contains, it need scarcely be said, a great masa of interesting detail. Here are some examples. Nearly one-third of the property of London is not represented. It belongs to corporations which cannot vote. In Parliamentary elections (1910) 84-3 of the voters went to the poll, in London County Council 51-2, in the Poor Law Guardian 21-8. In the Parliamentary elections in 1910 the Unionists in London returned a majority of eight candidates with a majority of voters of about 25,000 ; in the County Council elections a majority of two members with a majority of 78,154 voters.
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