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 114 REVIEWS OF BOOKS Th Law and Piniples of Co.ope,ation in India. By H. CALVERT, I.C.8. pp. vi, 142. Thseker, Spink & Co. Rs. 4. During roeen years Indian co-operative literature has been gradually gaining in volume, he hes addition o i being he volume under review. As he rifle iself indicates, he book deals mainly wih he law of co-operation in India. In he brief Inroduefion of 21 pages, however, he author rsees he history of he co-operative movemen in Indi and explains he principles on which i is based. He hen skes he Co-operative Societies Ao, 1912, nd annotates i section by section. The noes are largely based on he Repor of the Imperial Committee on Co-operation, Reports of he All-India Registrars' Conferences, Resolutions issued by he Oovernmen of India and he suhor's own personal experience. They refer also o he rules and practices of various European countries. These references, hough often prolix and .no o! diroe use o ho Indian co-operator, show him he hnes o! progress and he wsy o sekle new and unforeseen problems. The notes, on he oher hand, are generally sonnd and full, und should prove of use o practical eo-ope'sors and sudents of co-operation. We shehid like o draw he senfion of our readers especially o he noes on Sec. 43 in which Mr. Cslver has summsrised under proper hesdings all he rules issued by he vsiious loom governments. Bu hero are a few sections he wording o! which is ambiguous and which require fuller elucidation. In various sections (5, 12, 14, 0, 21 and t2) we are old of s member's "ineres" in capital, "ineres" in he society, ee. Bu, no even on p. 40, hs Mr. Cslver given ns s sufiieien expla- nation of hese phrases. Again, Sees. I9 and 2t--two of he mos difiieul sections of he Ace---require fuller elucidation. The book is, on he whole, very esrefnlly written. Bsed as i is on wide reading, sound judgmen and seuM personal experience, i will be a mos nseful vade met'urn for all practical co-operators in India. The Population Problem in India. By P. K. WATTAL, M.A. Indian Finance Department, Assistant Accountant-General, Bombay. Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co. 1916. pp. v, 8. Price Re. 1. There can be no question but that the population problem is the most serious coonomic question now confronting reformers