Industrial Lam. By F. Tillyard. (A. and C. Black. 10s.
net.)— In ordinary times this stout volume would perhaps have reosived the serious notice that-it deserves. There is comparative silence about its subject now, bit there is likely to bo more than enough writing, speaking, and acting in the matter as soon as the war is over. Professor Tillyard has written what I. mainly a book of reference. There are- nearly three hundred pages of appendices in which may bo found the innumerable details of orders, regulations, and schedules attached to the Acts dealt with in the first part of the volume. This too is some- what dry, for the author is content with the statement of the law and gives little comment. For instance, he explains in a matter-of- fact manner how the Trade Disputes Act of 1906 came to have its notorious Section 4, but he refrains from expressing any opinion upon, the principle of putting large bodies of citizens above the law as was done by this flagrant piece of class legislation. This habit of stating the causes that led to the legislation without further comment on the merits of the laws as good or bad remedies gives an impression of approval which may be false. Professor Tillyard refers briefly to the old common law of master and servant, but really begins hie account of statutory law from 1867, the date of Lord Eicho's Ant, which: put, an end to the imprisonment of workmen for breach of contrast, and of the Royal CODIE118810n that led to the Trade Union Act of 1671. Thence he takes us through the later Truck Acts, the Factory, Mines,, and Shops Acts, the Employers' Liability and Workmen's Compensation, Acts, Employment of Children Act, Minimum Wage Act, Insurance Ace, &c., and finally the Munitions of War Act, which first introduces, real compulsory arbitration.. It is bound to be a useful work.
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