5 OCTOBER 1895, Page 24

Parish Problems. By Lady Baker. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—The

complexities of the Local Government Act, 1894, with its Parish Councils and Meetings, Charities, Allotments, and the rest of it, are here discussed in a series of dialogues in which the opinion of the squire, the parson, the doctor, the Guardians, the labourers, are given. Finally, Lady Baker "rises on a wind of prophecy," and gives us a view of "five years after."