11 MAY 1951, page 28

Shorter Notices

rhe History of Capital Punishment. By Tins long book falls into two parts some- . what carelessly mixed. One is a full and able survey of capital punishment as now inflicted in......

,mr. Harrod Has Collected Some Of The Topical Articles Which

he wrote between the Autumn of 1947 and the summer of 1950. Most of them are concerned with the economic landmarks of that period—Bud- gets, Economic Surveys, white papers and......