Book Reviews

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The Long-run Behavior of Costs in a Chain of Shoe Stores: A Statistical Analysis, by Joel Dean and R. Warren James. Studies in Business Administration, Vol. XII, No. 3. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1942. x, 54 pp. $1.00. Reviewed by Michael Daly

Home Propaganda, Change No. 2. A Report prepared by Mass-Observation for the Advertising Service Guild. London: The Advertising Service Guild. 1942. vi, 78 pp. One shilling. Reviewed by H. G. Brearley

Parity, Parity, Parity, by John D. Black. Cambridge: The Harvard Committee on Research in the Social Sciences. 1942. xi, 367 pp. Reviewed by M. K. Bennett

The Control of Customer Returns, by Edgar H. Gault and Charles S. Goodman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, School of Business, Bureau of Business Research. 1942. 107 pp. $1.50. Reviewed by Bishop Brown

An Objective Method of Sampling Wheat Fields to Estimate Production and Quality of Wheat, by Arnold J. King, Dale E. McCarty, and Miles McPeek. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Technical Bulletin No. 814. 1942. 87 pp. 10 cents. Reviewed by F. X. Schumacher

Some Factors Affecting the Supply of Milk and Milk Products in Nova Scotia, by Wilfred J. Garvin. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press. Studies in Economics, No. 4. 1941. viii, 155 pp. Reviewed by Alan MacLeod

Hospitals and Hospital Patients in New York City, by Neva R. Deardorff and Marta Fraenkel. New York: Welfare Council of New York City. Hospital Discharge Study, Volume One. 1942. xvii, 209 pp. Reviewed by Harold F. Dorn

Income as an Index of the Fiscal Capacity of Michigan Counties, by Marvin A. Bacon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Michigan Governmental Studies, No. 8. 1941. vii, 78 pp. 35 cents. Reviewed by Mabel Newcomer

The Relation of Cost to Output for a Leather Belt Shop, by Joel Dean, With a Memorandum on Certain Problems in the Empirical Study of Costs, by C. Reinold Noyes. Technical Paper 2. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research. 1941. 74 pp. 50 cents. Reviewed by Harry Pelle Hartkemeier

Operating Results of Department and Specialty Stores in 1941, by Charles A. Bliss, and Department Store Financial Requirements 1920–1940, by Pearson Hunt and Albert R. Koch, Bulletin No. 114. Boston: Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, Bureau of Business Research, 1942. vi, 62 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by Lawrence C. Lockley

French Predecessors of Malthus, by Joseph H. Spengler. Durham: Duke University Press. 1942. ix, 398 pp. $4.50. Reviewed by E. P. Hutchinson

On the Principles of Statistical Inference, by Abraham Wald. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures, No. 1, 1942. 47 pp. Reviewed by Mark Eudey

Changes in Distribution of Manufacturing Wage Earners, 1899–1939. Washington: Bureau of the Census and Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1942, 268 pp. 30¢. Reviewed by Oscar L. Endler

Industrial Statistics, by H. A. Freeman, New York: John Wylie & Sons, Inc., 1942. ix, 178 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by Joseph Manuele