30 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 19

The Man-Power of the 21ation. By Alexander Richardson. (Engineer- ing.

ls. net.)—This pamphlet is a collection of articles reprinted from Engineering on the problems of industrial efficiency. The author shows practical knowledge and good sense in dealing with such topics as automatic machinery, wages and output, the ideal foreman, and the marketing of our goods abroad. In various ways he enforces the lesson that employers and workmen must eo-ope rate heartily if we are to hold our own as a manufacturing nation, despite the increasing competition of the foreigner.