24 OCTOBER 1896, page 22

Social Statistics.•

THIS is an age, among other things, of tabulation and enumeration. The facts of human life, as far as they are capable of numerical expression, are put together and worked out......

Madagascar Before The Conquest.*

Ms. SIBREE has written so much on Madagascar in past years that this latest book of his could hardly be, and certainly is not, any such systematic study of the state of politics......