THE HOME OFFICE. By Sir Edward Troup. (Putnam. ris.
- net.).
THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH. By Sir Arthur Newslio!me. (Putnam. 58. net.).
THE first volumes in this admirable new series of handbooks on the great Departments of State are written by two distin- guished ex-civil servants. Sir Edward Troup was permanent Under-Secretary of State in the Home Office from 1908 to 1922, and Sir Arthur Newsholme acted as Principal Medical Officer to the Local Government Board for twelve years before the establishment of the Ministry of Health. The authors therefore are able to write authoritatively on their subjects, 'and they have produced valuable short studies of two of the most interesting government offices. Both adopt the historical
method' of- approach, and this is-undoubtedly the _best for unfolding the true significance of the work and organization of the Home Office and the Ministry of Health. Perhaps the
most useful chapter in Sir Edward Troup's. book is the orie devoted to the administrative machinery 'of the Home Office. We could have welcomed a similar chapter in the volume in the Ministry of Health, the formation of' which . Sir. Arthur Newsholme regards as "the preliminary step to the' general reform and redistribution of the work of Boards of Guardian,
of Local Sanitary Authorities, and' of Insurance Committees, which is still lacking."
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