A Clue to Railway Compensation, the Value of Estates, and
Parochial Assessment. By Thomas Morris. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—It is rare indeed for a critic to have to find fault with a book for being too short, but this manual might certainly have been enlarged advantageously. The early chapters, which treat of the value of property, are, indeed, so meagre as to be almost useless, and this part of the subject has often been fully and ably handled before. Even as to the best mode of dealing with a railway company who wants your property the author really does not tell us much. But we do not doubt that the recommendation to decline arbitration in case you cannot agree with the company is good advice. You may as well go to a jury at once, which is far more likely to be a fair arbitrator than any surveyor, however eminent ; for railway companies employ surveyors, but not twelve jurymen.
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