MIDDLESEX By C. W. Radcliffe
The Middlesex County Council has done well in com- missioning its Clerk to prepare this Jubilee handbook on the history and growth of the county (Evans Brothers, 2s. 6d.) " for presentation to all the senior school children." If the young people read and digest this lucid description of the county services, well illustrated with maps and photographs, they will know infinitely more about how they are governed than the average Middlesex- ratepayer does. There are, of course, some curious anomalies in the development of Middlesex, which lost its northern half of the metropolis to London dounty in 1888 and yet has its Guildhall in the very centre of Westminster. The county as reconstituted had only half a million people, but in half a century it has grown four- fold and is still growing. Mr. Radcliffe's chapters on the main services, education, health, public assistance, drainage, and so on, are excellently done, and he does not fail to give a map distinguishing the several puzzling areas of Greater London for transport, police, water and other purposes. Young people will find his notes on " Careers and Professions " usefuL
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