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A Study On The Minimum Wage. By J. H. Richa

son:- (G. Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.)-Mr. Richardson, s the help of the library of the International Labour Office Geneva, has written a lucid and informing study of the ni* mum......

The Year's Work In English Studies, 1925. 'edited For The

English Association by F. S. Boas and C. H. Herford. (Oxford University Press. 7s. ed.)-How intensive the study of English literature has become may be judged from this book. A......

Partridges, Yesterday And To-day. (the Field Press. 3s....

'thorough enquiry into the state of the partridge in Britain has been made by the Field, its evidence put between 'covers and a succinct summary written as prefaCe by - the......

Current Literature

THE SETTLEMENTS AND ROADS OF SCOTLAND A STUDY IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. By Grace Meikle- john, M.A. (Oliver and Boyd. 12s. 6d.)-Miss Meiklejohn's, work is in all respects worthy of......

Home Life In History. By John Gloag And C. Thompson

Walker. Illustrated by A. B. Read. (Ernest Berm. 12s. 6d.)-Here is an ingenious and amusing book which depicts " social life and manners in Britain from 200 D.C. to A.D. 1926,"......

Ladies Half-way ...-and Other Essays. 11 Basil Macdonald...

6s.)-Mr. Hasti rails against Smiles and Sleep and Men's Evening Cloth American Films and- Belgian Taxes. Here is a specimen fro an essay called " Dead Without Knowing It." If......

Industrial Fluctuations. By A. C. Pigou. (macmillan....

of booms and slumps is analysed with painstaking thoroughness in Professor Pigott's important new book-a companion to the second edition of his well-known Economics of Welfare.......

A Library List

Poussics AND ECONOMICS :-The Mechanism of the Mods State. By Sir J. A. R. Marriott. Two Volumes. (Oslo University Press. 42s.) History of Reparations. Carl Bergmann. (Benn.......