12 MAY 1928, Page 33

- As a lucid and reasonable account of Economic Problem's

in Europe To-day we may commend the series of lectures by experts delivered at Birmingham University, and edited by Mr. Henderson Pringle (A. and C. Black, 5s.). Mr. George Peel, for instance, deals concisely with France, Dr. Seton- Watson with Czeeho-Slovakia, Dr. W. H. Edwards with Germany, describing in each case how the ravages of war have been repaired and what prospects the future seems to hold. Inasmuch as the revival of British trade, with the reduction of unemployment and lower taxes, is conditional upon the restoration of Europe to normal conditions, these lectures have a very serious interest for English readers.

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