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Restoration Of The World's Currencies. By R. A. Lehfeldt....

S. King and son. 6s. net.) Economists who are interested in Rand gold mining questions are well acquainted with the works of Professor Lehfeldt, of the Witwatersrand University,......

Children Of The Market Place.t The Critic, And Indeed The

reviewer of books, is supposed to look at literature objectively and to judge it by abstract principles in which prejudice and personality shall have no part. This is a pleasing......

Circular Saws. By Humbert Wolfe. (chapman And Hall. Cs.)...

Saws is quite a unique book—in English letters. It has something of the mordant humour brimming with tears which is the true Heinrich Heine. Its author's wit is uncommonly......

Prunello. By S. P. B. Mais. (grant Richards. 7s. 6d.)

Very nearly a very good novel, with something of the Brontë touch, spoiled by ludicrous extravagance and gratuit- ously coarse speech.......

Economics.

Economic Problems of Democracy. By Professor A. T. Hadley. (Cambridge : at the University Press. 6s. net.) Under this comprehensive title Professor Hadley, President Emeritus of......

Jim Maitland. By Sapper. (hodder And Stoughton. 7s. Od.)...

stories of a knight errant with an eyeglass—very free with his fists and revolver.......

The Justice Clerk. By W. D. Lyell. (william Hodges. 7s.

t3d.) A story of the brilliant old Edinburgh Society. The scenes are too realistic to be dull, but compare ill with familiar pictures by past masters.......