In England's Industriul Salvation (Allen and Unwin, 3s. 6d.) Mr.
Frank Hillier takes a kind of tour of the chief economic questions of the day, applying to them what seems to be a genuinely unbiassed mind and a very wide experience. He discusses high taxation, wages, marketing, and the various fiscal questions, and has much to say on each that is worth attention, just because he has been able to do what so many profess to do and cannot, approach them without Party pre- conceptions. The main conclusion to which he is able to come, leaving many questions in the inconclusive state which alone is consistent with honesty, is that British business and trading methods are still largely in the age of " water-cress teas and gas-jets . . . . the copying press, and clerks on high stools in dingy ink-stained offices.'t He gives chapter and verse for his allegations. We cannot imagine a more useful and wholesome little book to present to any amateur politician
or economist.
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