A General Freight and Passenger Post. By James Lewis Cowles:
(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Cowles propounds here a huge scheme for the nationalisation of railways. He writes for readers in the States, and much of his argument is founded on what is true of the States and not of this country. We do not have the free-pass abuse rampant among us, and " watering " stock is an exceptional practice. Still, there is much that an English reader will find of interest in this volume. And, in any case, he will learn from it, if he has not learnt already in other ways, that the less he has to do with American railway investments the better. We cannot profess to check the writer's facts, but it is certainly not true that the milk-rate on the Great Western Railway is not "the same for distances of from ten miles to one hundred."
Two volumes of a useful and interesting series, " Bell's Cathedral Series," edited by Gleeson White (G. Bell and Son), may be mentioned together. These are — Canterbury, the Cathedral and City, and Salisbury, the Cathedral and City. Both are illustrated with photographic reproductions, and being of a convenient size, may be profitably used as guides.
In the series of the " Modern Reader's Bible" (Macmillan and Co.) we have The Chronicles, edited, with Introduction and NotOs, by Richard G. Moulton, M.A. The editor has rearranged the two books of Chronicles and the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. These he has put into nine chronicles, the first being " The Gene- alogy of the Families of Israel before and after the'Captivity," the second, " The Kingdom of David and Solomon," the third, "The Kingdom of Judah to the Captivity," while IV.-IX. give various sections of the post-exilic history. There is no part of the historical portion of the Old Testament more in need of recon- struction than the books of Ezra and Nehemiah.
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