Work and Labour. By R. M. Minton-Senhouse. (Sweet and Maxwell.
16s.)—This book gives, to quote its sub-title, a " com- pendium of the Law affecting the conditions under which the manual work of the working classes is performed in England." , (The Employers' Liability Act is not included, having been made the subject of a special treatise by the author.) Among the opios discussed are Trade-Unions, Sunday observance (a matter on which a number of obsolete enactments still exist), factories, mines and quarries, seamen and pilots, hackney carriages and motor-cars, agricultural holdings, &c. There is a citation of many cases (numbering several hundreds), furnished with two indexes, the latter having the useful form of "Table of Cases— Defendants," and a table of statutes, reaching to the appalling length of between thirty and forty pages (of titles, be it re- membered),—and every Englishman is supposed to know the law ! It need hardly be said that this is likely to be a most useful book.
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