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Two useful books of a technical character may be mentioned

together, The Weights and Measures Act, 1904, by W. Eric Bons- field (Stevens and Sons, Os.), and A Practical Guide to the Death Duties, by Charles Beatty (Effingham Wilson, 4s. net), a new edition ; also The Practical Statutes of 1907, Edited by James Sutherland Cotton (Horace Cox).