Reviews

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Frequency Curves and Correlation, by W. P. Elderton. Second Edition. London: C. & E. Layton. 1927. vii, 239 pp. Reviewed by Robert W. Burgess

The Rate of Living, by Raymond Pearl. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1928. 185 pp. Reviewed by Sewall Wright

Forecasting Business Conditions, by Charles O. Hardy and Garfield V. Cox. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1927. x, 434 pp. Reviewed by F. E. Richter

Business Forecasting and Its Practical Application, by William Wallace. With an Introduction by W. T. Layton. London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd. 1927. xiv, 117 pp. Reviewed by F. E. Richter

American Loans to Germany, by Robert R. Kuczynski. Institute of Economics Series. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1927. xi, 378 pp. Reviewed by James W. Angell

The American Negro, A Study in Racial Crossing, by Melville J. Herskovits. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1928. xiv, 91 pp. Reviewed by C. B. Davenport

Seventieth Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Inland Revenue for the Year Ended March 31, 1927. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 110 pp. Reviewed by Ernest Minor Patterson

Statistical Methods for Research Workers, by R. A. Fisher. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. 1928. xi, 269 pp. Reviewed by Harold Hotelling

Prohibition: Its Economic and Industrial Aspects, by Herman Feldman. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1927. xv, 415 pp. Reviewed by K. M. Williamson

Juvenile Employment and Labor Mobility in the Business Cycle, by Maurice B. Hexter. Boston: Massachusetts Child Labor Committee. 1927. xix, 111 pp. Reviewed by Amy Hewes

Profits in Bank Stocks, by H. W. Woodward. New York: The Macmillan Company. 192 pp. Reviewed by C. R. Chambers

Negro Problems in Cities, A study made under the direction of T. J. Woofter, Jr. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. 192 pp. Reviewed by Melville J. Herskovits

Mathematical Principles of Finance, by Frederick Charles Kent. New York: Second edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1927. xiii, 177 pp., and compound interest and annuity tables, 214 pp. Reviewed by R. von Huhn

Municipal Savings Banks. Report of the Committee appointed to consider whether it is desirable to permit a further extension of Municipal Savings Banks. Presented to Parliament by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury by command of His Majesty, January, 1928. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 75 pp. Reviewed by Winfield W. Riefler