15 NOVEMBER 1919, Page 22

Hartfield'8 Sterling Conversion Tables.' Supplement. (New York : J. W.

Hartfield. $8 net.)—This pamphlet, supplementary to Mr. Hartfield's well-known tables, is a melancholy sign of the times, for it has been "published to meet the demand for such a work brought about through the abnormal low rates of sterling exchange." His tables did not contemplate the possi- bility of the British pound falling below 4 dollars 50 cents, but on Tuesday the exchange value in New York fell to 4 dollars 12 cents. Our pound, in other words, is worth about seventeen shillings in New York. Mr. Hartfield's supplement gives the conversion tables down to 3 dollars 80 cents—a point which, we trust, the exchange rate will never reach.