Under this title a small book has been brought out by a new firm of publishers, Messrs. Sheed and Ward. It is a proof of the courage of this new firm that it should have published a book on political economy for the sum of one shilling, for it is notorious that Books on economics have very little sale in England, except text-books for examination purposes, and these have only an adventitious popularity. Indeed, popularity is probably the wrong word. We hope here that the courage of these publishers will receive the counterpart it always merits, namely encouragement, and that the book will be widely read. Certainly the book itself deserves well of the reading public, since it takes the somewhat specialist subject of Imperial Preference and succeeds in making it not only interesting but inspiring.

This is not to be wondered at, for the author, Mr. W. A. S. Hewins, knows his subject thoroughly from within. His influence in England has been considerable, though his name is not so widely known as his work has been. We think that this forgetting of his name and remembering of his work would please Mr. Hewins, for he has never been one to push his personal deserts or claims; it is a cause, an ideal, even a dream that is his real object. So long as that gets established and begins to produce its due effect, he has always been content to let the glory and the reward slip from him as the sacrificial price of its success.