4 DECEMBER 1926, Page 41

Dr. Haden Guest has written a very interesting essay on e

The Labour Party and the Empire (Labour Publishing. Co.; 2s. 6d.). He claims for Labour the discovery that Protection and Free Trade are labels with little meaning. Ile dresses the salad of much sound thought with many neat garnishes, such as " The best advertisement of a car is a trial run, the best adVertisenient of Empire is travel . . . it would pay the country handsomely to send out members of all classes, from - Dukes without occupation to dockers without jobs, to see.; (the Empire) for themselves." Among the mass of political' and economic pamphlets put forth by busybodies with a theory to air, our readers should be sure not to miss this little book, for it is remarkably sane, although it does come from a Socialist.'