26 MAY 1894, Page 24

The Duties of the County Councils under the Local Government

Act, 1894. By F. Rowley Parker. (Knight and Co.)—It shows how large and complicated the new legislation on Local Govern- ment is, that a volume has to be devoted, not to the new Councils or Meetings, but to the new duties which the creation of these bodies will throw upon those already existing. Things, we pre- sume, will be got into working order somehow ; but it is clear that there are not a few difficulties. One of large proportion is the alteration of county borders. Loamshire hates Stoneshire and to transfer a Loamshire parish to Stoneshire will be not wholly unlike what transferring one of the Altis demes to the Bo3otian League would have been. Mr. Parker's work will be found a useful supplement to the books which lay down the duties of the Parish and District Councils,