The Municipal Year - Book. Founder and Director, Robert Donald; Editor, Albert
E. Cave. (Municipal Journal. 12s. 6d. net.)—A very considerable increase, amounting to as much as 20 per cont., has boon made to this very useful volume. So vast is the subject of municipal government, and so many are its ramifications, that it would be rash to predicate completeness of any manual dealing with it. It is evident, however, that the conductors of this undertaking are doing their best in this direction, One thing that strikes au observer at once is the inequality of the conditions existing in various towns. The variety of the rates have been noticed more than once in these columns. Here, however, we have to remember that there is an unknown factor—the scale of the assessment. Some differences, however, are more or less independent of this consideration. We see, for instance, that Bacup charges two shillings in the pound on the gross rental for its water supply, while Brighton charges ninepence on the rateable value and Ring's Lynn goes as low as sevenponce.
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