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Abstract Introduction to Economic Statistics, by William Leonard Crum, Alson Currie Patton, and Arthur Rothwell Tebbutt. New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1938. xi, 423 pages. $4.00. Reviewed by Bruce D. Mudgett Business Statistics, by John. R. Riggleman and Ira N. Frisbee. New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Second Edition, 1938. xix, 790 pp. $4.00. Reviewed by Wilbert G. Fritz Statistical Methods, by George W. Snedecor. Ames: The Collegiate Press, Inc. 2d edition, 1938. xiii, 388 pp. $3.75. Reviewed by W. Edwards Deming Statistical Methods for Research Workers (Seventh Edition), by R. A. Fisher. Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, Ltd. Biological Monographs and Manuals, No. V. 1938. xv, 356 pp. 15/–. Reviewed by Harold Hotelling An Introduction to Modern Statistical Methods, by Paul R. Rider. New York. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 1939. ix, 220 pp. $2.75. Reviewed by Harry Pelle Hartkemeier Research in Agricultural Index Numbers—Scope and Method, by John D. Black and Bruce D. Mudgett. New York: Social Science Research Council. Bulletin No. 10. Prepared under the direction of the Advisory Committee on Social and Economic Research in Agriculture. March, 1938, viii, 152 pp. 75 cents. Reviewed by Frederick Strauss Collection and Presentation of Statistical Data in Psychology and Education, by Martin F. Fritz. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1939. vi, 58 pp. 65 cents. Reviewed by Mary V. Louden Wholesale Commodity Prices in the United States 1700–1861, by Arthur Harrison Cole. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. 1938. Textual Volume, xxiii, 187 pp. $4.00. Statistical Supplement, x, 359 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by Willford I. King Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom, for each of the fifteen years 1913 and 1924 to 1937. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. New York: The British Library of Information. Eighty-second number, 1939. xvii, 453 pp. $2.00. Reviewed by Harrison F. Houghton Selected Information on Steel Producers with Assets over $100,000,000 Each, Registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 at June 30, 1938. Washington, D.C.: Securities and Exchange Commission. A Works Progress Administration Project. Report No. 1. November, 1938. v, 63 pp. Reviewed by Marion W. Worthing Des Crises Générales et Périodiques de Surproduction, by Jean Lescure. Tome I: Le Phenomene. Tome II: Causes et Remédes. Paris: Les Editions Domat-Montchrestien. F. Loviton & Cie. 1938. xvi, 702 pp. 100 fr. Reviewed by William Fellner The Causes of Economic Fluctuations, Possibilities of Anticipation and Control, by Willford I. King. New York: The Ronald Press Company. 1938. xv, 353 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by J. M. Clark Consumer Incomes in the United States, Their Distribution in 1935–36. Washington, D. C.: National Resources Committee. 1938. vii, 104 pp. 30 cents. Reviewed by Horst Mendershausen Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume Two, by the Conference on Research in National Income and Wealth. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research. 1938. xii, 331 pp. $3.00. Reviewed by Edgar Z. Palmer The National Income of Australia, by Colin Clark and J. G. Crawford. Sydney and London: Angus & Robertson, Ltd. 1938. viii, 120 pp. 3/6. Reviewed by Robert R. Nathan The National Income of Hungary, 1924/25–1936/37, by Matthias Matolcsy and Stephen Varga. London: P. S. King & Son, Ltd. 1938. vii, 116 pp. 15s. Reviewed by Robert F. Martin The Problems of a Changing Population, Report of the Committee on Population Problems to the National Resources Committee. Washington, D. C. May, 1938, iv, 306 pp. 75 cents. Reviewed by Robert E. Chaddock The Synthetic Optimum of Population, An Outline of an International Demographic Policy, by Imre Ferenczi. Paris: International Institute Of Intellectual Co-operation, League of Nations. International Studies Conference. 1938. 115 pp. Reviewed by Frank Lorimer France Faces Depopulation, by Joseph J. Spengler. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. 1938. xi, 313 pp. $3.00. Reviewed by Mortimer Spiegelman Racial Origins and Nativity of the Canadian People, by W. Burton Hurd. Ottawa, Canada: Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Census Monograph No. 4. Reprinted from Vol. XII, Seventh Census of Canada, 1931. 1937. xvii, 292 pp. 35 cents. Reviewed by Leon E. Truesdell Natural Increase and Migration, Greater Cleveland, 1919–1937, by Howard Whipple Green. Cleveland: Cleveland Health Council. 1938. 75 pp. $1.00. Reviewed by C. W. Thornthwaite Joint Committee on Mortality, Occupational Study (1937). New York: Compiled and Published by the Actuarial Society of America and the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors. 1938. 95 pp. Reviewed by Thomas N. E. Greville Member-Bank Borrowing, by Robert C. Turner. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University. December, 1938. xiv, 243 pp. Reviewed by Ernest A. Johnson Les opérations des banques d'émission sur le marché libre (Open market policy), by Miroslav Kříž. Paris: Receuil Sirey. 1938. 282 pp. 35 fr. Reviewed by Margaret G. Myers Control Policies of the Reichsbank, 1924–1933, by Mildred B. Northrop. New York: Columbia University Press. London: P. S. King & Son, Ltd. Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University, Number 436. 1938. 405 pp. $4.00. Reviewed by M. K. Inman Economic Consequences of Recent American Tax Policy, by Gerhard Colm and Fritz Lehmann. New York: The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School for Social Research. 1938. xii, 108 pp. $1.00. Reviewed by Willard L. Thorp Really Tax Delinquency in Michigan, by Robert S. Ford. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. Bureau of Government, New Series Bulletin No. 8. October, 1937. vi, 125 pp. $1.00. Reviewed by Denzel C. Cline World Finance 1937–1938, by Paul Einzig. New York: The Macmillan Co. 1938. xvii, 336 pp. $3.00. Reviewed by Charles S. Tippetts Die deutsche Wirtschaftslage von 1914 bis 1923, Krieg, Geldblähe und Wechsellagen, by Freidrich Hesse. Jena, Germany: Verlag von Gustav Fischer. “Beiträge zur Erforschung der wirtschaftlichen Wechsellagen Aufschwung, Krise, Stockung.” Herausgegeben von Arthur Spiethoff, Heft 16, 1938. x, 498 pp. R.M. 15.–. Reviewed by Melchior Palyi Fascist Economic Policy, An Analysis of Italy's Economic Experiment, by William G. Welk. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Harvard Economic Studies, Volume LXII. 1938. xx, 365 pp. $4.00. Reviewed by Herbert von Beckerath Balances of Payments, 1937. Geneva: League of Nations, Economic Intelligence Service. New York: Columbia University Press. 1938. 212 pp. Reviewed by Charles P. Kindleberger The Sugar Economy of Puerto Rico, by Arthur D. Gayer, Paul T. Homan, and Earle K. James. New York: Columbia University Press. 1938. xviii, 326 pp. $3.75. Reviewed by Erich W. Zimmermann Wheat Studies of the Food Research Institute, Stanford University, California. “World Wheat Survey and Outlook September 1938,” by Helen C. Farnsworth and Holbrook Working. Volume XV, Number 1. September, 1938. Pp. 1–47. 75 cents. Reviewed by Blair Stewart Wheat Studies of the Food Research Institute, Stanford University, California. “Shipping and Freight Rates in the Overseas Grain Trade,” by V. D. Wickizer. Volume XV, Number 2. October, 1938. Pp. 49–210. $1.00. Reviewed by Blair Stewart Wheat Studies of the Food Research Institute, Stanford University, California. “Wheat Futures Prices and Trading at Liverpool since 1886,” by Holbrook Working and Sidney Hoos. Volume XV, Number 3. November, 1938. Pp. 121–80. $1.00. Reviewed by Blair Stewart Wheat Studies of the Food Research Institute, Stanford University, California. “The World Wheat Situation, 1937–38, A Review of the Crop Year,” by Joseph S. Davis. Volume XV, Number 4. December, 1938. Pp. 181–257. $1.25. Reviewed by Blair Stewart Your Community, Its Provision for Health, Education, Safety, and Welfare, by Joanna C. Colcord. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1939. 249 pp. 85 cents. Reviewed by Harold E. Adams Farm Credit in Canada, by W. T. Easterbrook, with a foreword by H. A. Innis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Canada: University of Toronto Press. Political Economy Series, No. 2. 1938. viii, 260 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by W. J. Waines Rural Youth: Their Situation and Prospects, by Bruce L. Melvin and Elna N. Smith. Washington, D. C. Division of Social Research, Works Progress Administration. Research Monograph XV. 1938. xx, 167 pp. Reviewed by C. E. Lively Economic Aspects of Medical Services, with Special Reference to Conditions in California, by Paul A. Dodd and E. F. Penrose. Washington, D. C: Graphic Arts Press, Inc. 1939. xxii, 499 pp. $3.75. Reviewed by Douglass V. Brown