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are six in number, exclusive of the Preface and Dedication to Pro- 

 fessor Maurice, ^vhich contains many interesting historical details 

 concerning the Ballot. " You have thought to greater purpose on 

 the means of preventing electoral corruption, and are likely to be of 

 more service in passing measures for that highly important end, 

 than any other person that I could name." J. S. Mill, in a 

 published letter to the Author, May 1868. 



Corfield (Professor W. H.) A DIGEST OF FACTS 

 RELATING TO THE TREATMENT AND UTILIZATION 

 OF SEWAGE. By W. H. CORFIELD, M.A., B.A., Professor of 

 Hygiene and Public Health at University College, London. 8vo. 

 los. 6d. Second Edition, corrected and enlarged. 



In this edition the author has revised and corrected the entire work, 

 and made many important additions. The headings of the elevett 

 chapters are as follow: /. "Early Systems: Midden- Heaps and 

 Cesspools." II. "Filth and Disease Cause and Effect." III. "Im- 

 proved Midden- Pits and Cesspools; Midden-Closets, Pail- Closets, 

 etc." IV. " The Dry- Closet Systems." V. "Water- Closets." VL 

 " Sewerage." VII. "Sanitary Aspects of the Water- Carrying 

 System"* VIII, "Value of Sewage ; Injury to Rivers" IX. 

 Town Sewage ; Attempts at Utilization." X. "Filtration and 

 Irrigation" XI. "Influence of Sewage Farming on the Public 

 Health" An abridged account of the more recently published 

 researches on the subject will be found in the Appendices, while the 

 Summary contains a concise statement of the views which the author 

 himself has been led to adopt; references have been inserted through- 

 out to show from wJiat sources the numerous quotations have been 

 derived, and an Index has been added. "Mr. Corfiela" s work is 

 entitled to rank as a standard authority, no less than a convenient 

 handbook, in all matters relating to sewage." 



Button (Amy). STREETS AND LANES OF A CITY: 

 being the Reminiscences of AMY DUTTON. With a Preface by 

 the BISHOP OF SALISBURY. Pp. viii. 159. Globe 8vo. 3-r. 6d. 



This little volume records "a portion of the experience, selected out of 

 overftmving materials, of two ladies, during several years of devoted 

 work as district parochial visitors in a large population in the 

 North of England" The "Reminiscences of Amy Dutton" sei-ve 



