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 118 REVItWS OP BOOKS enlarged." Undoubtedly it covers considerably more ground than the first edition. The arrangement of subjects in the book under review is entirely different from that in the first edition, which was divided into nine chapters with six appendice, whereas the new book possesses twenty-one chapters with three appendice. Broadly speaking Professor divided into two main parts: Mukherjee's book may km (i) History and development of co-operation in the West (ii) History and principles of es-operation as practised in India. The first two chapters deal with the former, and the subsequent 19 chapters along with three appendixes deal with latter. The first chapter of the first edition has been much enlarged and developed in the new book and a different title "Brief Survey of the Origin and Development of Co-operation" has been given to it. The literature on "Co-operation in Europe" is very extensive. Vo!ff, Fay and Holycake have contributed a great deal on the theory of es-operative principles and their applicability to the western conditions.. Persons interested in the progress of co-operation in India must first of all learn lessons from the experiences of Europe. Professor Mukherji has condensed the vast literature of European es-operation into this chapter, and thus has saved much time and labor for the people who wish to be initiated into the movement. In the second chapter the author gives some acount of the "eent .Developments of Co-operation in the West" and shows his close acquaintance with the recent literature on the movement. He iutroduoos this ohspier in the hope that these developments "may bo adapted o the needs of India and established hero in suitable onros." Afterwards he "aomps within a brief oompass o give a comprehensive survey of ho phenomenal dovolopmon of o co-operafiive movement in India". Tile chapter on "Rural Indebtedness in India" is somewhat vague and does not.. satisfy the expectations of the reader which the title warrants. Chapters IV and V describe how the scheme of Sir Vi!!iam Wedderburn proposed in 1882 was passed into law after 22 years in 1904. Sir Fredrick Nicholson, Mr. Dupernex and other workers in the field found in the Hindu easts system, in the Moslem sentiment of common brotherhood and "one for all" in the Punshayer system and particularly in the "Nidhis" and "Kuttu Chittu" of Southern India ample