The British Trade Year - Book, 1906. By John Holt Schooling. (John
Murray. 10s. 8d. net.)—Mr. Schooling gives us here the figures for the twenty-six years 1880-1905. He prints two hundred and twenty-one tables, in which the trade figures are stated in various combinations. Three, for instance, give "All Imports into the United Kingdom," three more "General Imports," and seven " Special Imports." Similarly we have the "exports" treated in the same way. In other tables we see set forth "Trade with Certain Colonies," "Trade with Certain Foreign Countries," &o. We cannot go beyond this general description,
except, indeed, to quote from Table 12, which gives "Exports per 100 of our Population" : 1881-1890—Mr. Schooling reckons by decades—gives special exports £648, re-exports £173 (this is the maximum of any decade, showing a total of 4821) ; 1893-1902 gives £603 and £154, the minimum; 1896-1905 exhibits £652 and £159, the special exports reaching the highest point, the re-exports showing a fall.
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