The author has considered the of economies histor the advantage to the reader that he is presented with the leading types of economic theory and is enabled to get a general view of the theory of the science. He is thus not committed to any one course of thinking and in dealing, the problems of to-day can call to his.and the views of men who from varied angles of thought and fat, various periods of history have offered. solutions of the problems of the science. "In thus dealing with his subject the author presents very fully the views of the mercantile school, of the physiocrats, of the individualists and of the universalists. He quotes freely from P. C, Wren is best known for his stories of the Foreign Legion and his Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal characters. Long before hho came into fame for these books, however, he had been delighting a narrower circle of possibly closer friends with his books on Indi of which are now republic the cheaper edition, which is $0 necessary in these sad preci currencies. We meet old favourites in both books mentioned above but they have undoubtedly been displaced in the popular fancy to-lay by the Good Gesteg- Never theless it is quite pleasing to be back with Wren in his pre-war days in India, If only fon one thing we should be very thankful for this, cheap edition. In "The Snake and the Sword" we find an. excellent various writers who are leach description of life, in a British exponents of the different schools of army regiment before the 1014 thought, It is interesting indeed cataclysm and we find—which is not when he: traces the reasons for the so pleasing apd, in fact, almost various changers in thought. In incredible in these days—a' possible lone exse, physical, such as the in-slightly exaggerated but all. the flux of gold into Europe which gave same mainly truthful and accurate rise to the mercantile school with estimate of the British public's ideas doctrine of the balance of trade.
In another, political, as the French rarer ce eta Revgltion' Rod ihe tate of thet fact finances of France in the days' likeable characters "that I walk Louis XIV. "In another, Ue outlook with soldiers? Are you drunk?" lof a country, whether industrial or 'And even if the author does rub agricultural.' In this latter connec-it in w bit may be when we take tion it may' be suggested that Eng-our minds back to the years mid-Jand then the foremost industrial way between the South African and country in Europe accepted the the Great War we can recall that doctrine of Adam Smith owing to. the fine fellow of 1914-1918 was not industrial outlook. Many well quite so fine in the public esti known names naturally are brought tion of 1905-19141 If only for his to the reader's notico:—Quesnoy, comments, then, on matters such as dam Smith, Ricardo of the In-this, Wren in' his) pre-war days dividualist school, Miller, and List should be read and remembered. It Jof the Universalist school, to men-is a different army to-day, of tion but a few of those he quotes. course, but we hope the danger of Of particular value are the com: the great British public making the ments of the author on the views. same mistake again is gone for lof the authorities quoted. It is not fever, As for the stories themselves, possible in a review to set out at they are full of fun and fighting—good yarns, with many a home thrust their pages.—a.w.r. fon them but it is possible to say the reader will obtain profitable knowledge from reading: them.
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