19 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 13

Elements of Economics of Industry. By Alfred Marshall. (Mac- millan

and Co.)—This is an adaptation of Professor Marshall's larger work to the needs of junior students. The change that has come over the science of Political Economy is strongly marked in this book, in which the old scientific dogmatism has been changed for a literary hesitation. But it is not all gain. There is a great deal of " blather" in this book, which is strangely out of place in a scientific treatise ; and surely it is no part of an economist's business to introduce such appalling commonplaces as "that health of body and mind and spirit, a pure heart, and a love towards God and man, will make a man happy, however poor he is." The book is already too long, and stuff of that sort might surely be left to sermon-writers.