CURRENT LITERATURE.
Colonial Office List for 1891. Compiled by John Anderson and Sidney Webb. (Harrison and Sons.)—This annual publication contains a mass of manifold information concerning the Colonies and Dependencies of Great Britain, brought up to date. There seems little room for now matter, as previous editions have included almost everrtort of Colonial statistics ; but the present issue gives fuller particulars about those vast areas which the English people allows to be governed by the Imperial British East Africa, the British South Africa, and the British North Borneo Companies. In North Borneo, for instance, -we learn that there are two missions, one belonging to the Church of England and the other to
the Roman Catholics ; while at Sandakan, the chief town, with a population of about seven thousand, "the club, hotel, banks, and insurance agencies, European and Chinese stores, public markets, hospital, Government house, offices, gaol, barracks, saw-mills, tennis-grounds, and the numerous neat suburban bungalows around bespeak civilisation and progress."
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