Industrial Rivers of the United Kingdom. By Various Well- Known
Experts. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—It is perhaps as well that the names of all the well-known experts are withheld, for there is a striking want of variety of treatment of an interesting subject. The history of an industrial river must of necessity consist largely of figures, but at least they could be presented to the reader in a more attractive form than tables of statistics. Not that these are without a certain attraction, but they are more in their place in The Shipping World. In spite of the promise given in the preface, the chapters have little but commerce to recommend them. The most attractive chapters are, perhaps, " Southampton" and "Bristol." The progress within recent years of most of the ports is, however, clearly explained, and the statistics teach some- thing themselves. We hear very little about the Thames, which deserved more space than that which has been given to it. Industrial Rivers is disappointing.
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