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The End Of Laissez-faire, By Mr. Keynes (woolf, 2s.), Is

a fifty-three page monograph which merits fuller consideration than can be given here. Mr. Keynes considers that Capitalism is, on the whole, more efficient for attaining......

This Week's Books

nom primaeval ooze to Piccadilly, Mr. Happold traces the adventures of his hero, Man (The Adventure of Man. Christopher's, .4s. 6d.), and succeeds in telling a story which is......

The Web Of Finance; By Mr. Vowles (john Bellows,...

has a 'stick of dynamite in its little preface about " the destructive influence of our iniquitous financial system " Which should not, however, deter us from reading further,......

Professor Philip Baker Writes Fairly And Clearly Of The,...

of Nations at Work (Nisbet and Co., 3s. 6d.), neither. protesting over much nor being unduly pessimistic. - He gives us the facts in this little book and keeps a tight rein upon......

Mr. Walter Weston Gives Us An Attractive And Topical Travel

book on Japan. (Japan. Black. 7s. 6d.) Questions such as "Are the Japanese honest ? " are discriminatingly dealt with. " Some movements in Modern Japan " is also of absorbing......

We Do Not Demand Literarymerit In The Entries For This

com- petition. We should like them, to be simple and straight7 forward, and we ask no more. Readers will differ, we feel sure, in their conception of the highest qualities of......

Next Week:

A review of H. G. Wells's new novel, The World of William Clissold, by Hugh Walpole ;. also a review of Mr. Soinefset Maugham's new book of stories, The Casuarhia Tree.......

Books Recommended

Miscma.msnous.—The League of Nations at Work. By - -Philip Noel Baker. (Nisbet and- Co. - Ss. • 6d.)—Melhodi of Conducting Family Budget Inquiries. From the Inter- national......

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- 1. All entries must be received on or before Friday, Sept. -10th: 2. Competitors may send in as many entries as they -wish:. but each entry must be accompanied by one of the......

The Competition,

." Everyone who thinks and feels is apt at times to fall into the state of mind.of the Psalmist, and believe that— . earth is full of darkness and crud habitations.' Therefore I......

A A * * Three Interesting Statements Recently Received Are

Guide to Current Official Statistics (H.M.'s Stationery Office, Is. 30. post free), The Second General Report of the Peoples League of Health (12 Stratford Place) whose patron......