13 OCTOBER 1906, Page 24

The Coal Question. By the late W. Stanley Jevons, F.R.S.

Edited by A. W. Flux, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. net.)— Mr. Stanley Jevons published this book in 1865, and issued a. revised edition in the following year. The present editor takes great pains to prove that the reflections cast on the accuracy of Jevons's prognostications by various authorities, the Allerton. Commission among them, were not well founded. His thesis was if the rate of increased consumption continues, then the coalfields will be exhausted in so many years; but he added the contention that the rate would not continue.