17 OCTOBER 1896, Page 24

Strikes and Social Problems. By J. Shield Nicholson, M.A. (Adam

and Charles Black.)—Professor Nicholson publishes here some lectures delivered by him in his capacity of Professor of Political Economy, and essays contributed to various periodicals. It would take us out of our province to discuss the subjects of which he treats. He is not a partisan. While he defends the rights of capital and the liberty of labour, he can look at the other side of the question. He does not, for instance, see how Trade-Unions are to be dispossessed by the device of profit- sharing.