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Modern Business Practice. Edited by F. W. Raffety. (Gresham Publishing

Co. 78. 6d, net.)—This first volume—the series is to include eight in all—may be taken as preliminary, dealing as it does with matters common to all branches of business. This Part I. contains eleven chapters, in which the choice of a business, the conduct of it when chosen and established, the qualifloations of the principal, the selection and securing of the staff, business premises, correspondence, post, telegraph and telephone communi- cation, taxation and the rates, trade organizations, and the art of advertisement are outlined. Tho Editor has undertaken a con- siderable part of this wide range of subject, and he has been assisted by various experts.