We have received the Owens College Calendar, 1887-88 (J. E.
Cornish and T. Bowler, Manchester; Macmillan, London), and the similar publication of the University College, Dundee (J. Lang and Co., Dundee). As the question of the presence of professors on the Councils of these provincial colleges is exciting some interest nowa- days, we may observe that the Owens College has three representa- tives of the teaching body in the Council (including the Principal), while the Dundee College has not any, the representative of the teaching body not being a teacher. The existence of an Education Board in the latter college is a noticeable feature.—Among other annual publications, we have received The Handbook of Jamaica, 1887.88. By A. C. Sinclair and Laurence R. Fyfe. (Stanford.)—It is satisfactory to see that the income and expenditure of the Colony are about balanced, and that the debt is being reduced. The average attendance in the schnols (1885.86) was 30,385. As the census of 1881 gave a population of 580,804, this is only a third of what, by our European standard, it should be. But as in 1881 the number of inhabi- tants able to read and write was less than one-fifth, even this rate of attendance should bring about a gradual improvement. We are pleased to see a noticeably good result of the Jamaica scholarship. Since 1884 the holder has gained a good position in the honours division of the London Matriculation Examination, the places being 15th, 2nd, 10th, 5th, and 2nd. Twice the candidate would have been entitled to an exhibition, had he been examined in England. This surely is a grievance which might be removed. There is, we need hardly say, much interesting matter in this volume.
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