Secretarial Work and Practice, by Alfred Nixon and George H.
Richardson (Longmans and Co., 5s.), is a volume in "Longman? Commercial Series." The work to which it is meant to serve as a guide is, of course, that of the secretaryship to commercial com- panies. Mr. Thomas Price adds a treatise on "Company Law." —We may mention at the same time Vocations for Our Sons, by
John W. Hicks (T. Fisher Unwin, 2s. 6d. net). Mr. Hicks gives between thirty and forty occupations, introducing them with an essay by Professor Ashley (taken by permission from a pamphlet issued by the Faculty of Commerce in the University of Birmingham,—what would Plato have said to a "Faculty of Commerce " !) We do not feel competent to criticise in detail Mr. Hicks's suggestions and directions. He confines himself, we see, to facts, and is not the less useful ; and ho does not forget to preach the cardinal truth that the aspirant for employment, whether it be in accountancy, advertising, brewing, cycle-making, dentistry, journalism, tailoring—we choose a few samples from Mr. Hicks's list at random—must take pains and do his best. We may apply to all what Virgil said of agriculture :—
" Pater ipso colendi
baud facilem ease viam voluit."
—How to Buy a Business, by A. W. Bromley (same publisher, 2s. 6d. net), is even more a matter for the expert, and we must be content to mention the book with the general remark that it looks as if it told the reader what he wants to know.
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