17 APRIL 1926, Page 41

The Labour Year Book for 1926 (Labour Publications, 3s. 6d.)

contains a vast amount of political and industrial information, not about Socialism only. There is an interesting section on the profits made by various joint stock companies, a table of agricultural wage-rates operating in various districts of England last summer, ten all-too-brief pages on education, and a controversial chapter on Municipal Socialism. The latter seems the weakest section in an otherwise interesting book. Is it really the aim of Socialism to multiply the white-elephant tramway lines of London in order to relieve traffic congestion ? However, this is a volume to be recommended, for, whatever our political opinions, we should learn the other points of view.