29 DECEMBER 1888, Page 24

Engineering, and is quite worth the reading of Local Government

reformers or intending County Councillors. The sketches are humorous and clearly written, and if somewhat too technical for the non-engineering mind in some of their details, may yet be appreciated by the general public. The moral, if there is one, seems rather to lie in the direction of the necessity for extending Local Government districts, especially in view of drainage and water-supply (and pollution) areas, than in the more depressing and trite moral drawn by the author, that if the ratepayers want good Local Boards, they must make themselves good.