An Englishman's Views on Questions of the Day in Victoria,
by C. J. Rowe (Triibner and Co.), may be thoroughly recommended as a compact little handbook of the various questions that at present press for solution in our leading Australasian colony—Protection, land, railways, education, public works, and the suffrage—written by a man who has evidently done his beg to master them. Mr. Rowe takes an anti-Berryite view of most matters in Victoria, but his book is none the worse for that. He points out one thing in con- nection with the recent reform, and broadening of the electoral basis, of the Legislative Council of Victoria, which has escaped the atten- tion of most writers—certainly of most English writers—on the sub- ject. Under the Reform Act, the electors of the Upper House are also electors for the Lower. As out of a total electorate of 200,000 in the colony these number 108,000, they have really 216,000 votes, as against 92,000 electors with only 92,000.
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