VIE W$ OP BOOKS provided ?vhieh compare graphically the distribution of both the import trade and the export trade with different countries, in 1915-16 with the last pre-war year 1918-14. Different colors are used for British possessions, the allied countries, and all other foreign countries. We think that in the next '/?zv/zw a fourth color might be used to distinguish the enemy countries, as they now are, in the trade of 191?-14, from the neutral countries. The thh'd chapter analyses the imports into India according to the different groups of commodities, e.g. chemicals, cotton goods, glass mvare, machinery, matches, metals, oils, and so forth; and in the fourth chapter the exports are dealt with in the same way, particularly interesting seetions being those on coal, indigo, rice, wheat, hides, jute, wolfram, and oils and oil-seeds. Chapter deals with customs, shipping and freights, and Chapter VI ?vith frontier trade. Burma and Bihar between them account for more than half of the total frontizr trade of India. The following two chapters deal briefly with the coasting tiade and with inland trade; and the last chapter is devoted to a summary and conclusions. In the last we find an interesting table giving the peteenrage of exports by sea to the estimated total production in the case of a number of agricultural products. The proportion of the crop exported rises from i ni? in of sugar and 4 per cent in pract cally the case ease of rice, and 6 per eent of wheat, to 65 per cent in She ease of raw eottou, 49 per cent for linseed, and 105 por oent for indigo due to the holding baek of the previous year's crop. The volume as & whole' is well turned out and them are f?w suggestions which we could offer for improvement. We venture, however, to sugges0 that there is no great advantage in separating the curves of the monthly changes of imports and exports and of total trade upon different e?rts. We think tha? they would gain in interes? if all were placed upon one chart and distinguished by different colors, and this would leave room for another chart in the remaining half of the page. The very numerous summary tables inserted in margin are very useful and in,resting; but they need to be distinguished more clearly from the text in places either by enclosing with rules, or by means of a wider margin. ?Ye welcome the monthly charts of prices which are given for a few eom- moditim; but is there any reason why these should be reprod?
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