Three pamphlets of Messrs. Bean's Sixpenny Series deserve special mention.
First is Mr. Hartley Withers's Money. Not only does Mr. Withers succeed in making his subject clear, but he is fair also to the bimetallist and to the anti-gold- :standard reformer, while controverting both these fallacies. Informed with a pretty wit and a real grasp of epigram (where epigram is useful), Mr. Withers may be said to be in a class by himself among financial writers in that what he says is both interesting to the man in the street and acceptable to the Bank of England. Mr. Spielmann's Chemistry gives us a remarkably wide conspectus of a subject which covers almost every branch of human activity, and the chapters on the application of chemistry, its present trend and future direction, are particularly interesting. We agree that a training as a chemist involves an orderly and scientific habit of mind and a process of thinking of the utmost value to any young man in the modern world : even better is it than a legal training. * * * *
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