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Free Trade, The Tariff, and Reviprocity, by F. W. Taussig (12mo, 219 pages; Macmillan), needs no introduction to any student of economics or commercial policy. Chairman of the United States Tariff Commission, Dr. Taussig's authority, which rests alike upon research and watchful, even-tempered criticism, is preeminent. Many of the essays are popular enough in character to have appeared in the Atlantic, and they have therefore almost equal appeal to the lay and the learned. This book should commend itself to editorial writers who are not wilfully committed to writing fallaciously about international trade.
The Scientific Spirit and Social Work, by Arthur James Todd (12mo, 212 pages; Macmillan), discusses the grounds for including social work among those occupations which, by becoming permeated with the scientific spirit, have achieved the rank of professions. Without "undervaluing the human contacts which must remain the chief media of social work, the author clears the field of sentimental underbrush, and points the way to a comprehensive training in applied sociology which will enable workers to keep an open mind toward modern social tendencies and to exert an intelligent influence upon them.
The Family and the New Democracy, by Anna M. Galbraith (12mo, 387 pages; W. B. Saunders Co., New York), finds grounds for belief that the effect on woman of the wider range of interests opened to her by the war will be the gradual elimination of the "kept" type and the re-establishment of the family as a cooperative enterprise. This to be signalized by a revision of the marriage contract. However sound that prediction, the chapters on the need for uniform marriage and divorce laws, and for sex education to combat the spread of venereal disease, are much to the point.
The Labor Market, by Don D. Lescohier (12mo, 338 pages; Macmillan), treats of labour supply, occupational idleness, the reduction of labour turnover, and the development of public employment systems. A workmanlike book, with an exhaustive British-American bibliography, that fills a gap in economic literature.
