'11Idie'Boolis" of the Week - • (Cbrainuedliom page 239.) .
- Like other handbooks, A Magistrate's Handbook, by S. R. q. - Bosanquet and D. H. J. Chalmers (Ernest Benn, Ltd., 12s. 6c1) _is, of course, intended as a book of reference, .hut the 'reader interested in the elementary, stage of the Justice of his country will find so much which is illuminating in every !section that he will be led on from one to the other and finally come, to his great surprise, upon . the first appendix. The one thing which might improve the book is a glossary of strange ivords. They can be found in the index if you know where to :look for them ; but a little list containing information as to what are " appellants," " complainants,"-" exhibits " (some- - times they are dead hens !), " arraignments," and, most of all, - what is an " indictable offence," would be found exceedingly useful. Possibly Stipendiary Magistrates, who have to be bar- - misters respectively of five orgsevert years' standing, could cavil at the authors' declaration on the first page that " in iriodern language the terms Magistrate and Justice of the Peace are now 'synonymous." The sections on Probation and Children's Courts might be usefully expanded ; for instance, the fact is not noted :that in the London Children's Courts a Woman Justice must :always be present on the Bench. The whole book may be recommended to the newly appointed Magistrate as an . excellent supplement to that bewildering work, Stone' Justices Manual.
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