12 OCTOBER 1929, page 34

Inasmuch As We Are, Or Ought To Be, All Economists

now, a friendly word may be said for the little text-book on Business Economics that Mr. Thomas'Beach and Mr. Douglas H. Smith have written (Routledge, 3s. 6d.). The authors......

• Professor Ernest Scott, Of Melbourne, Has Made A Most

attractive book by collecting the original narratives of those Who took part in Australian Discovery by Sea (Dent, 10s. 6d.). Torres in 1606 passed through the strait to the......

The Late 'general Pitt-rivers Is Widely Known And -...

pioneer of scientific archaeology in England.- He did much excellent work in Cranborne Chase, and he built a model museum to hold his collections, besides laying out pleasure......

Fitiatice Public & Private

Insurance Profits IT is quite wrong to suppose, as many people do, that life assurance companies make profits out of their policy- holders. On the contrary, policyholders make......

A Library List

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