The new number of that valuable but too little known
quarterly, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, contains, among other papers, a most valuable, well-written, and well-arranged paper on " The Distribution and Movement of the Population of India," by Mr. J. A. Baines, Census Commissioner for that country. Mr. Baines, whose article, by-the-way, is illustrated and supplemented by carefully prepared tables, comes to the rather comforting con- clusions that, relatively to its means of subsistence, India is not over-peopled ; that, even in the favourable circumstances of the last ten years, the population has not increased in an undue pro- portion to these means, whilst the rates of its increase in its powers of production and purchase indicate a general rise in the well-being of the community at large. Among the other contents of this number of the Journal are an elaborate scheme for the reorganisation of our Labour Department by Mr. David F. Schloss, and the results of an inquiry made by Dr. Francis Warner into the physical and mental condition of fifty thousand children seen in one hundred and six schools.
Previous page
