A history of Coulatining in Great Britain. By R. L.
Galloway. (Macmillan.)—A book with such is title should have had an index. Without that help a reviewer finds it no easy task to test and value an author's object and method, as well as his performance. But so far as we have studied this history of coal-miuing, we are bound to confess that we have been disappointed. The book is pleasant reading. enough, but it lacks balance and completeness, The modern de- velopments of the industry are most cursorily treated, while the statistics of the getting, the distribution, and the uses of coal are barely named. Some of the descriptions and narratives connected with colliery engineering are well told, but the complete absence of diagrams, tables, maps, and other illustrative apparatus is a grave defect in a work of this scope.
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