AN OUTLINE OF ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES AND PROBLEMS

Francis A. Linville. Saga Press, p. 217.75C.

Designed as a complementary aid to the beginning student in Economics, this Outline covers admirably the broad fields of fundamental economic principles and practical economic problems. It should prove to be of material help to the student embarking on his first study of the socalled "Dismal Science."

As its title indicates, this book is an outline, useful in conjunction with any of a number of leading texts in the field, and so organized as to obviate the necessity of "under-lining" and "note-taking" which ordinarily constitute the repertory of economic information of the average student. An extremely convenient crossreference table is to be found in the front and back of the book, cataloging the appropriate pages in the present work which correspond to different subjects in a list of popular textbooks.

Presumably the order in which subjects are presented is relatively unimportant in an outline of this character, since the user will select subjects for study in the order corresponding to that in the text he is using. If this were not the case, one might have occasion to question in some respects the manner in which the outline is arranged. For example, it is somewhat perplexing to find the discussion of "The General Price Level" and "The Business Cycle" coming before the treatment of the distributive shares to the factors of production. In general, however, the outline proceeds from the fundamental and general to the more advanced and specialized subjects.

The diagrams introduced from time to time in the text will be exceedingly useful to the beginning student.

Professor Linville deserves especial praise for the comprehensive glossary of economic terms.

An Account of The First Dating of Preserved Wood in New England, by Professor Charles J. Lyon appeared in the November 3rd issue of Science.

The December issue of Appalachia contains an article by Nathaniel L. Goodrich, Librarian, entitled Pond Road.

American Ski Annual, an Official YearBook of the National Ski Association, Mr. Nathaniel L. Goodrich editor-in-chief, has been published as usual by the StephenDaye Press. This is a book of 224 pages plus many pages of advertisements. This Annual is well illustrated and naturally contains many articles of interest to the skier. As editor, Mr. Goodrich contributed editorials and notes. David Bradley '38 has an article entitled European Saga, and Chester A. Emerson '11 has an article Skiing with the kids in the Eastern SlopeRegion.

Vertigo and Aniseikonia by Dr. Robert E. Bannon appears in the December issue of the Columbia Optometrist.

Half-Ti?ne Honors Work in French:Theory, Practise, Results, by Professor Charles R. Bagley, has been reprinted from the December issue of The ModernLanguage Journal.