THREE "HOW-TO " BOOKLETS.—Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton are to be
congratulated on publishing Lord Apsley's Why and flow I went to Australia as a Settler (price 3d.), and the author is to be doubly congratulated on the scheme he so successfully carried through as " George Bott," and the interesting way he has told his experiences. An ounce of fact is worth a ton of theory ; if we had more young men in politics of Lord Apsley's temper, comprehensive schemes for group settlement in the Dominions would be further advanced than they are.
The Dorland Advertising Agency is issuing a series of pamphlets on Empire Markets. No. 1, on Australia, has just been published. The typography and " lay-out," with headings chiefly in lower-case type, is excellent and the infor- Mation includes a census, a table of occupations (showing that Australia employs more labour in industrial undertakings than in agriculture) a return of Savings Banks deposits, industry, railways, shipping, Soc. We welcome these little books of facts in ready and accessible form.
Lord Decies has written an interesting pamphlet, Horn to Lower Your Income Tax (Collingridge, 3d.). He points out that all Government Departments have bigger staffs and higher salaries than ten years ago, so that we are paying RA30,000,000 more each year for the cost of Government. The only way to get economy, according to the author, is that the Budget should be framed, not on the needs of the Depart- ments, but on the capacity of the nation to pay. Government Departments would then have to cut their coat according to their cloth.
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