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DAVENPORT (H. J.). The Working

of Restricted Credit. Journ. Polit. Econ., Jan. GARIEL (G.).

Rev.

Les chèques et virements postaux en Suisse. Econ. Intern., Oct. [Describes also the Austrian and Hungarian methods.]

HEILIGENSTADT (C.). Der deutsche Geldmarkt. Jahrb. f. Gesetzg., 1907, Heft 4. HEINEMANN (E.). Die Scheckfrage und das Trennungs-problem in Bankwesen. Jahrb. f. Nat. Oek., Nov. KEMMERER (E. W.).

An Agricultural Bank for the Philippines. Yale Rev., Nov. [The conditions which make such a bank desirable, and the U.S. act of 1907 for establishing one. The author of this paper has taken chief part in investigating the subject and bringing the legislation to pass.]

KNAPP (G. F.). Die Währungs

frage, vom Staate aus betrachtet. Jahrb. f. Gesetzg., 1907, Heft 4. LAUGHLIN (J. L.). Currency Reform. Journ. Polit. Econ., Dec.

[A discussion of pending proposals, and concluding suggestion that a "Commission of high order" might be put in charge of emergency issues.]

The Recent Bond Issues. Journ. Polit. Econ., Jan. NOYES (C. D.).

The Fall in the World's Markets. Forum, Oct.Dec.

The Financial Panic in the United States. Forum, Jan.March. [A narrative account.] SCHMIDT (F.). Die französischen Aktienbanken. Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Staatsw., 1907, Heft 4. SODA (Küchiro). Die neue Knappsche Geldtheorie und das Wesen des Geldes. Jahrb. f. Nat. Oek., Nov.

TIPPER (Henry). Bank Charter Act, 1844. Journal of the Institute of Bankers, Oct. [An examination of conditions in 1844 and in 1907, with suggestions for amendment of the act.] WARSCHAUER (O.). Die Organisation des Scheckverkehrs in Deutschland. Jahrb. f. Nat. Oek., Nov.

IX. FINANCE AND TAXATION.

CHARPENTIER (C.). La progression dans les impôts indirects en Allemagne. Paris: Alcan. 1907. 5 fr.

GREEF (G. de). L'Économie publique et la science des finances. Paris: Alcan. 1907. 9 fr. GROS (G.). L'impôt sur le revenu.

Essai d'économie financière. Paris: Larose et Tenin. 1907. 10 fr.

HECKEL (M.). Lehrbuch der Finanzwissenschaft. 1 Band. Leipzig: C. L. Hirschfeld. 1907. pp. 525. 10 m.

[A systematic treatise in three volumes, the second and third of which are expected to appear within two years.]

KLOSE (W.). Die Finanzpolitik der preussischen Grossstädte. Berlin: F. Siemenroth. 1907. pp. 268. 5.50 m.

OBERHOLTZER (E. P.). Jay Cooke: Financier of the Civil War. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs. 1907. 2 vols. pp. 658, 548.

$7.50.

[An excellent and exhaustive biography of one of America's best-known financiers. The author had access to Jay Cooke's private papers, and has used them freely.]

RIEMANN (E.). Die Wertzuwachssteuer und Umsatzsteuer in Breslau. Kommentar zur Steuerordnung v. 20. Juni, 1907. Breslau: W. G. Korn. 1907. pp. 92.

1.20 m.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. Inheritance-Tax Laws. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1907. pp. 69.

[A convenient compendium.]

WEST (Max). The Inheritance Tax. New York: Columbia University Studies. 1908. pp. 249.

[A second, revised and enlarged edition of this useful work.] WUARIN (A.). Essai sur les emprunts d'états et la protection des droits des porteurs de fonds d'états étrangers. Paris: Larose et Tenin. 1907. 5 fr.

In Periodicals.

ADAMS (T. S.). Separation of the Sources of State and Local Revenues. Journ. Polit. Econ., Jan. BALIGAUD (A. von). Die projektierte Aufhebung der staatlichen und kommunalen Oktrois in Spanien. Fin. Archiv, 24, 2. BROOKS (R. C.). The New Unearned Increment Taxes in Germany. Yale Rev., Nov. [An excellent account of those taxes, of their fiscal effects and relations to other taxes.] COHN (G.).

Eisenbahnüberschüsse und Steuern im preussischen Staatshaushalte. Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Staatsw., 1907, Heft 4. COHN (Gustav). Government and Public Finance. Econ. Journ., Dec. COHN (I.). Government and Pub

lic Finance. Econ. Journ., Dec. [Remarks on public works as sources of revenue, with a prophecy for Germany of higher progressive taxes on the well-to-do.] DAVENPORT (H. J.). A Permissive Habitation Tax. Journ. Polit. Econ., Dec.

Tax Legislation by Constitutional Amendment. Journ. Polit. Econ., Dec.

DES CILLEULS (A.). Vues et conséquences financières relatives à l'opération des domaines nationaux en France. Rev. de sci. et de lég. fin., V. 4. GRENLICH (E.). Die finanzielle Belastung der Gesellschaften mit beschränkster Haftung. Ann. des deutsch. Reichs, 1907, 10 and 11. [A study of double taxation in income-tax laws of the German states.]

JÈZE (G.).

Le budget au point de vue juridique. Rev. de sci. et de lég. fin., V. 3.

LE ROSSIGNOL (J. E.) and STEWARD
(W. D.). Rating of Unimproved
Land in New Zealand. Journ.
Polit. Econ., Jan.
MANICKE (A.). Die deutsche
Schaumweinsteuer. Fin. Archiv,

24, 2. REVILLON (A.). L'impôt sur le revenu. Rev. de sci. et de lég. fin., V. 3.

ROCCA (E. P.). Lo sviluppo delle società per azioni e il nostro sistema tributario. Riforma Soc., Sept.-Oct.

TANGORRA (V.). La technica finanziaria come materia d' indagine teorica e di studi teorico-descrittivi. Giorn. degli Econ., Nov.

WEBER (Ad.). Ueber die Wertzuwachssteuer. Krit. Blätter, Nov., Dec. [Review of recent publications on the subject by one not disposed to favor this tax.] ZWIEDINECK-SÜDENHORST (O. von). Der Abschluss der badischen Steuerreform. Fin. Archiv, 24, 2. [An account of the property tax established by the law of 1906.]

X. CAPITAL AND ITS ORGANIZATION:

CARR (C. T.). Collective Owner

ship Otherwise than by Corporations or by Means of the Trust. London: Camb. Univ. Press. 1907. 8vo. pp. 138. 5s. [Yorke Prize Essay, 1905.] DARWIN (L.). Municipal Owner

ship.

COMBINATIONS.

London: Murray. 1907. 8vo. pp. 166. 2s. 6d.

at

[Four lectures delivered Harvard University, 1907.] FAIRLIE (J. A.). Essays in Municipal Administration. New York: Macmillan. pp. 374.

[A collection of essays, chiefly

reprinted, all of excellent quality. Economic problems are touched in those on Public Works Administration, Municipal Ownership, Electric Lighting in Detroit, Street Railways in Chicago, and Municipal Conditions in foreign countries.]

KNOOP (Douglas). American Business Enterprise. A Study in Industrial Organization. Manchester: The University Press. 1907. pp. 110.

[A report by a Gartside scholar of the University of Manchester, based on a journey of investigation. Well done, but not containing much new to American students.]

LANDER (A. E.). The Municipal Manual: A Description of the Constitution and Functions of Urban Local Authorities. London: P. S. King. 1907. pp. 300. 3s. 6d.

[Covers, among other subjects, "extra municipal powers," such as water supply, gas works, telephones, and the like, and finance and poor laws.] MEYER (Hugo R.). The British State Telegraphs. New York: Macmillan Co. 1907. pp. 425.

$1.50.

Public Ownership and the Telephone in Great Britain. New York: Macmillan. 1907. pp. 404. $1.50.

[In these volumes the author again reaches conclusions against public management. In that on the telephone, national and municipal administrations are roundly condemned. In that on the telegraph, most stress is laid on the pressure of the House of Commons to bring about lower rates and that of the civil servant to secure higher pay and slack discipline. Both volumes rest on painstaking use of the sources, and are to be reckoned with.] NATIONAL CIVIC FEDERATION REPORT. Municipal and Private Operation of Public Utilities. 3 vol. New York: National Civic

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ARBUTHNOT (C. C.). The Factor System as related to Industrial Combinations. Journ. Polit. Econ., Dec. [A good review of the methods practised and the opinions of business men, with conclusion that the system is not open to serious objection.] CONANT (Chas. A.). The World's Wealth in Negotiable Securities. Atlantic, Jan. FORBES (Urquhart A.). The Water Supply of the United Kingdom. Quart. Rev., Oct. [Urges a treatment of the English watersystem on scientific principles.] MONTEMARTINI (G.). La politica municipale nei grandi centri urbani. Giorn. degli Econ., Dec. SABATIER (C.). Le morcellisme dans l'industrie. Rev. d'Écon. Pol., Nov.-Dec. [Examines the reasons for the increase in small industries.]

ZARTMANN (L. W.). Control of Life Insurance Companies. Journ. Polit. Econ., Nov. [On the mode in which policy-holders may vote and affect management, with considerations of the recent legislation of New York.]

ECONOMIC HISTORY.

XI. BEER (George Louis). British Colonial Policy, 1754-65. London: Macmillan Co. 1907. pp. 340. 88. 6d.

[The author has been a lecturer in history at Columbia University.]

BISHOP (A. L.). The State Works of Pennsylvania. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. 1907. pp. 148.

[A careful history, based on the sources, of the Pennsylvania state canals and railways, to their sale in 1858-59. The author is instructor in Yale University. The monograph is reprinted from the Proceedings of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.] BOGART (E. L.). The Economic History of the United States. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1907. pp. 535. $1.75.

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[An excellent text-book for colleges and high schools, equipped with bibliographical aids, maps, good illustrations. The best book yet published on the subject.] CASTA-LUMIO (L.). Étude historique sur les origines de l'émigration reglementée dans anciennes colonies de la Réunion, la Guadeloupe, la Martinique, et la Guyane. Paris: Larose. 1907. pp. 208. FISCHER (Kurt). Eine Studie über die Elbschiffahrt in den letzten 100 Jahren, mit bes. Berücksichtigung der Erhebung der Schiffahrtsabgaben. Jena: G. Fischer. 1907. pp. 283. 7.50 m.

[In Conrad's Abhandl.] GAFFAREL (P.). La politique coloniale en France de 1789 à 1830. Paris: Alcan. 1907. 7 fr. KIESSELBACH (G. A.). Die wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen der deutschen Hanse und die Handelsstellung Hamburgs bis in die 2. Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: G. Reimer. 1908. 6 m. [Announced.

KOCH (H.). Geschichte des Seidengewerbes in Köln vom 13. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1907. pp. 139. 3.20 m.

[In Schmoller's Forschungen.] LEICHT (P. S.). Studi sulla proprietà fondiaria nel medio evo. II. (Oneri pubblici e diritti signorili). Verona-Padua: Fratelli Drucker. 1907. 8vo. pp.

157. MEYNIEL (S.).

Un facteur de la révolution française. La querelle des impôts au Parlement français en 1788-1789. Paris: Giard et Brière. 1907. 5 fr. MILIOUKOV (P.). La crise russe. Son origine, son évolution, ses conséquences. Paris: Libr. univ. 1907. 15 fr. SALONE (E.). La colonisation de la Nouvelle-France. Étude sur les origines de la nation canadienne français. 2me édition. Paris: Guilmots. 1907. 7.50 fr. SARGENT (A. J.). Anglo-Chinese Commerce and Diplomacy (mainly in the nineteenth century). Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press. 1907. pp. 344. $4.15.

[An excellent account of British trade with China, beginning with a sketch of the East India Company's rule, and proceeding chronologically to the present. The author is teacher at the London School of Economics.] SMYTH (Eleanor C.). Sir Rowland Hill: The Story of a Great Reform. London: Unwin. 1907. 8vo. pp. 344. 58. ZEYSS (R.). Die Entstehung der Handelskammern und die Industrie am Niederrhein während der französ. Herrschaft. Beitrag zur Wirtschaftspolitik Napoleon's. Leipzig: Duncker & Hum1907. pp. 292. 7 m.

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In Periodicals.

BRAKEL (S. van). Die Entwickelung und Organisation der Merchant

Adventurers. Vierteljahrschr. f.
Social- u. Wirtschaftsgesch., 1907,
Heft 3.

CARO (G.). Probleme der deutschen
Agrargeschichte. Vierteljahr-
schr. f. Social- u. Wirtschafts-
gesch., 1907, Heft 3.
GYGAX (P.). Augsburg, das ein-
stige Geldreservoir des Platzes St.
Gallen, 1835–1850. Jahrb. f.
Gesetzg., 1907, Heft 4.
HARMS (B.). Die Steuern und
Anleihen im öffentlichen Haus-
halt der Stadt Basel, 1361-1500.
Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Staatsw., 1907,
Heft 4.

LEVY (H.). Englische Kartelle der Vergangenheit. II. Jahrb. f.

Gesetzg., 1907, Heft 4. [A second instalment of this study.] MÜLLER (T.). Geleitswesen und Güterverkehr zwischen Nürnberg und Frankfurt a. M. im 15. Jahrhundert. Vierteljahrschr. f. Social- u. Wirtschaftsgesch., 1907, Heft 3. RACHFAHL (F.). Zur ältesten Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Germanen. Jahrb. f. Gesetzg., 1907, Heft 4. [A criticism of some points in the second edition of Brunner's Rechtsgeschichte.] SCHACHNER (R.). Australien als selbständiger Produktionsstaat. Jahrb. f. Nat. Oek., Oct., Dec.

XII. DESCRIPTION OF INDUSTRIES AND RESOURCES.

BARKER (J. E.). Modern Germany.

Her Political and Economic Problems. London: E. Smith. 1907. 8vo. pp. 592.

10s. 6d.

[2d and very greatly enlarged edition.] CENTRO INDUSTRIAL DO BRASIL. O Brasil, suas riquezas naturas, suas industrias. Rio de Janeiro: M. Orosco & Co. 1907. pp. 551.

[A French translation of the introduction of this work has also been issued.] CRONBACH (Else). Die oesterreichische Spitzenhausindustrie. Beitrag zur Hausindustriepolitik. Vienna: F. Deuticke. 1907. pp. 217. 5 m.

[In Wiener Staatsw. Studien.] DEMANGEON (A.). L'industrie aurifère en Colombie. Paris: Dunod et Pinat. 1907.

FERNEHEM (M. de).

Les richesses du Portugal. Paris: Dujarric. 1907. 1.50 fr.

FREEMAN (W. G.), CHANDLER (S. E.), and Others. The World's Commercial Products. Boston: Ginn & Co. 1907. pp. 391. $3.50.

[A valuable treatise on the economic plants of the world and their commercial uses, with many excellent illustrations.] GOFFART (M. F.). La mise en

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tion des capitaux privés. Gand: Gomaere. 1907.

[Examines the large investment of international capital in the region of the Congo.] GROTEWALD (Chr.). Die Tabakindustrie: Rohmaterial, Technik, volksw. Bedeutung. Stuttgart: E. H. Moritz. 1907. pp. 152. 2.50 m.

Die Zuckerindustrie: Rohmaterial, Technik, volksw. Bedeutung. Stuttgart: E. H. Moritz. 1907. pp. 178. 2.50 m. [Popular illustrated handbooks, in a series edited by this author.]

HAARMAN (H. J.). Die ökonomische Bedeutung der Technik in der Seeschiffahrt. Leipzig: W. Klinkhardt. 1907. pp. 114.

3 m.

[In the series of Technischvolksw. Monographien, edited by L. Sinzheimer.]

HALLE (E., editor). Die Weltwirtschaft. II. Jahrgang, 1907. II. Teil: Deutschland. Leipzig: Teubner. 1907. pp. 291. 4 m.

[This second part, on Germany, appears earlier than Part I. (International Surveys) and Part III. (Foreign Countries). The

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