SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
Volics in (hi' column does not neceeearily preclude rubeequenl review.] The New York Survey Graphic for April (30 cents) devotes its whole space—some eighty pages—to articles by various hands on the American coal industry, with many excellent illustrations. The Bureau of Industrial Research has assisted the editors to obtain statements of the case from the different standpoints for the benefit of people who do not read technical reports and who cannot find elsewhere such detailed exposition of a complex problem. The geological distribution of bituminous coal in America, as explained, for instance, in the New York Independent for April 1st, might have been dealt with to explain the acute competition between the different coalfields. In the main, however, the various aspects of the question are fully and not unfairly stated. The miners' case receives special• attention. English readers would find it hard to believe- Mr.
Powers Hapgood's account of towns—apparently in West Virginia—owned by colliery companies who exercise the right of excluding or expelling any persons of whom they do not approve.
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