Modern Tariff History. By Percy Ashley. (John Murray. 10s. 6d.
net.)—Professor Ashley has brought up to date in a second edition the very valuable account of tariff matters in Germany, France, and the United States which ho published six years ago. In each of these three countries important changes have been made ; in each—so, at least, Free-traders think—there has been exhibited a significant object-lesson of the inevitable processes which Protection develops. These changes are described in a most philosophic and impartial way by Professor Ashley, who has at the same time revised the whole work. All will find a reperusal of the book, as it now is, full of interest.—We may mention at the same time Tariff Reform and the Working Man, by T. Y. Macnamara, M.P. (Hodder and Stoughton, 2s. (.1.)—We cannot follow Dr. Macnamara in all that he says,—in his lauda- tion, for instance, of the Government land-policy; but he has marshalled a great array of useful facts relating to the question of Protection v. Free-trade. Such matters do not properly belong to these columns, but we may give a specimen. When we gave up Protection there were sixty paupers in every thousand of the population ; now there are twenty-three.
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