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A Text-Book of Economics. By M. Briggs, M.A. (Univer- sity

Tutorial Press. 8s. 6d. net.)—This is a scholarly attempt to deal with the whole field of modern economics, and should prove a lucid introduction to the science for those who have no previous knowledge of it. Mr. Briggs has confined the mathe- matical study of economics to an appendix, so the bulk of his • book can be followed by those who have no taste for abstract mathematics. Carlyle was probably thinking of the rudiments of economics when he called it "the dismal science " : in practice it can be found extremely fascinating.