The Australian Handbook (Gordon and Gotch) contains, we may remind
our readers, topographical, commercial, and other in- formation, not only about the Australian Colonies, but also
about New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea. It is furnished with some excellent maps, and is evidently the result of an unsparing
expenditure of labour. We may briefly note as instances of the different conditions of life as they are found here and in the Australian Colonies, that a "town," as it is called, in Victoria, with a population of "between two hundred and three hundred," has five hotels, a branch bank, four places of worship, two State schools, and a free library. In England it would probably have no other proof of public or private enterprise than a pillar-box. —The Newspaper Press Directory (Mitchell and Co.) appears in its "Fiftieth Annual Issue." There are, it seems, 1,728 news- papers published in England, of which 152 appear daily. Fifty years ago the total number for the United Kingdom was 551, of which twelve dailies only appeared in England. The volume con- tains the customary information, and special articles of interest on various subjects and persons, as "Fifty Years of Press Legislation," by W. F. Finlason ; "Edmund Yates," by Clement Scott ; and "John Walter," by W. F. Finlason.—The Public Schools' Year- Book. Edited by Three Public School Men. (Swan Sonnensebein and Co.)—The Art Schools of London. Edited by Tessa Mackenzie.
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