SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.]
Amongst recent contributions of value to the literature of economics we have to note the third part of Professor Sydney J. Chapman's important work on Work and Wages (Longmans and Co., 98. net), which deals with " Social Betterment," the movement which aims at correcting the evils of unrestricted competition; a thoughtful and elaborate discussion of Work and Wealth, by J. A. Hobson (Macmillan and Co., 8s. 6d. net), which aims at presenting "a full and formal exposure of the inhumanity and vital waste of modern industry"; and The War of Steel and Gold (G. Bell and Sons, 5s. net), a somewhat belated but very able "study of the armed peace," by H. N. Brailsford.-Under the auspices of the London School of Economics have been published an original and entertaining study of The Financing of the Hundred Years' War (Constable and Co., 6s. net), by Schuyler B. Terry; a conscientious monograph on The Export of Capital (same publishers, 7s. 6d. net), by C. K. Hobson; and a suggestive essay on Christianity and Economic Science (John Murray, 2s. 6d. net), based on a recent course of lectures by Archdeacon Cunningham.-Teachers and students alike will welcome English Economic History : Select Documents (G. Bell and Sons, 6s. net), skilfully selected and edited by A. E. Bland, P. A. Brown, and R. H. Tawney.
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