Parish Law (Steer's). Edited by W. H. Maonamara. (Stevens and
Sons ; Sweet and Sons ; Maxwell and Sons.)—This is a very useful book very well edited. Parochial politics are ceasing to carry the contemptuous meaning which they used, now that local government has become one of the questions of the day. Parish law embraces such widely different topics as the duty of keeping a chancel in repair, the power of a parson over tombstones, the rights of the parishioners as a body in the selection of their Local Government Board, as against oligarchical usurpations in the form of select and self-elective vestries, and the ever-burning question of the relief...of the poor. So far as we have been able to test the book, it is clear, accurate, and compact, the three qualities most needed in a law-book ; and it should be in every parson's and guardian's library.
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