The Foreigner in the Farmyard. By Ernest Edwin Williams. (W.
Heinemann.)—Mr. Williams has the courage of his opinion. He would put a duty on foreign wheat, not a uniform duty, but "heavier against silver and paper countries." He would mark imported meat; he would induce English farmers to combine so as to enable them to compete with Danish and Swedish butter ; he would foster fruit-growing; encourage the culture of beet- root; improve the relations between the railway companies and the producer, and otherwise advance the interests of the British farmyard. Some seem to us feasible, some impossible. The pro- posal for a duty on wheat is mischievous nonsense. Dairy co- operation is of course excellent, and seems to be slowly *inning its way, and the railway companies are coming to their senses. One curious fact remains, that when the native producers combine they seem unable to sell their goods cheaper than those which have gone through a middleman's hands. —Along with this may be mentioned a work which will probably be useful in correcting some of Mr. E. E. Williams's economic errors, The Theory of International Trade, by C. F. Beatable, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.), "a second edition, revised."
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