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Abstract Abstract Government Statistics, A Report of the Committee on Government Statistics and Information Services. New York: Social Science Research Council. Bulletin 26. 1937. xiv, 174 pp. $1.00. Reviewed by Willard L. Thorp Statistical Methods Applied to Experiments in Agriculture and Biology, by George W. Snedecor. Ames, Iowa: Collegiate Press, Inc., of Iowa State College. 1937. xii, 341 pp. $3.75. Reviewed by A. E. Treloar Linear Regression Analysis of Economic Time Series, by T. Koopmans. Haarlem: De Erven F. Bohn N. V. Monograph Number 20 of the Netherlands Economic Institute. 1937. xi, 150 pp. f. 2. Reviewed by S. S. Wilks Cost of Living in the United States, 1914–1936, by M. Ada Beney. New York: National Industrial Conference Board, Inc. 1936. N.I.C.B. Studies Number 228. ix, 99 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by Faith M. Williams An Index to Business Indices, by Donald H. Davenport and Frances V. Scott. Chicago: Business Publications, Inc. 1937. viii, 187 pp. $3.00. Reviewed by Frederick E. Croxton Statistics in Education and Psychology, by Elmer R. Enlow. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1937. ix, 180 pp. $2.75. Reviewed by Henry A. Robinson Recurring Cycles of Fashions, 1760–1937, by Agnes Brooks Young. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1937. xiv, 216 pp. $3.00. Reviewed by Lillian Freidman The Economics of Consumption, by Charles S. Wyand. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1937. xiii, 565 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by John H. Cover Economic Development of Germany under National Socialism, by Vaso Trivanovitch. New York: National Industrial Conference Board, Inc. N.I.C.B. Studies Number 236. June, 1937. xvii, 141 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by Calvin B. Hoover The Economics of the Iron and Steel Industry, by Carroll R. Daugherty, Melvin G. de Chazeau, and Samuel S. Stratton. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Publication of the Bureau of Business Research, University of Pittsburgh. (Monograph Number 6.) 1937. Volumes I and II, xxxiii, xx, 1188 pp. $12.00. Reviewed by J. Frederic Dewhurst Location Theory and the Shoe and Leather Industries, by Edgar M. Hoover, Jr. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1937. Harvard Economic Studies, Volume LV. xvii, 323 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by Glenn E. McLaughlin Problems in Labor Relations, A Case Book Presenting Some Major Issues in the Relations of Labor, Capital, and Government, by Herman Feldman. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1937. xxxix, 353 pp. $2.75. Reviewed by Royal E. Montgomery Urban Workers on Relief, by Gladys L. Palmer and Katherine D. Wood. Washington, D.C.: Works Progress Administration, Division of Social Research. 1936. Part I, xxvii, 203 pp. Part II, xx, 301 pp. Reviewed by Ralph Carr Fletcher Economic Backgrounds of the Relief Problem, by J. P. Watson. Publication of the Bureau of Business Research, University of Pittsburgh. (Monograph Number 5.) 1937. $2.00. Reviewed by John N. Webb Die Grossstädte im Strome der Binnenwanderung, Wirtschafts- und bevölkerungswissenshaftliche Untersuchungen über Wanderung und Mobilität in deutschen Städten, by Rudolf Heberle and Fritz Meyer. Leipzig: S. Hirzel. 1937. xi, 206 pp. Reviewed by Conrad Taeuber Studies in Current Tax Problems, under the direction of Carl Shoup. New York: Prepared in Connection with a Survey of Taxation in the United States under the Direction of The Twentieth Century Fund. 1937. xxiii, 303 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by Alfred G. Buehler International Short-Term Capital Movements, by Charles Poor Kindleberger. New York: Columbia University Press. 1937. xi, 262 pp. $3.00. Reviewed by Emile Despres The Undistributed Profits Tax, by M. Slade Kendrick. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1937. Pamphlet No. 20. 108 pp. 50 cents. Reviewed by Mabel Newcomer Studies in Massachusetts Town Finance, by Eugene E. Oakes. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Harvard Economic Studies, Volume LVII. 1937. 237 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by A. M. Hillhouse Federal Subsidies to the Provincial Governments in Canada, by James A. Maxwell. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1937. Harvard Economic Studies, Volume LVI. xi, 284 pp. $3.00. Reviewed by K. W. Taylor Corporate Interest Payments 1921–1932, by Edward Douglass Burdick. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. A thesis in economics presented to the faculty of the graduate school in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy. 1936. 130 pp. Reviewed by J. Ellwood Amos