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 120 REIEW$ OP BOOKS A very useful feature of Chapter XX is the "annotations" to the Co-operative Societies Act, 1912. The select Bibliography and Index have made up a great deficiency of the first edition of the book. "The classification of Indian Co-operative Institutions as described in the book" and three appendixes at the end which contain recent statistics, the Government of India Resolution on the growth of Co-operation in India and abstract report of the Imperial Committee on Co-operation, are of great use to students preparing for any examination. In the end we would like to note that Professor Mukherjes has' omitted to deal with the "hasiyat registers (status books) which are kept in all the primary as well as central societies of the United Provinces. The advancement of loans and purchase of shares are entirely based on them. They have also got great economic value, for after sometime they will be a very useful record giving the real status of the peasantry. Officials, professors and students of economies, and every one interested in eo. operation in India, will find the book very useful both for study and reference. We offer' our hearty congratulations to Professor Mukherjee for his enterprize in bringing out this useful introduction to the subject. The Calcutta University has prescribed Professor Mukherjee's book for the B.A. Exan_ination. Universities will follow suit examinations. We hope that other by recommending it for Indian their Circles and Recipes it geowmis. By V. L. Va;rPxYV. E BHmUaE. 1916. pp. 22. Price As. 5. We would not in the ordinary course have noticed this pamphlet at any length, but the practice of writing notes and cram books is growing so fast that we must take this opportunity to utter a timely warning against it. Writing of notes wih a view to helping students to pass examinations by mere eramining is bad enough in any subject, but in economies its dangers are especially great and real. As' is commonly agreed, economies is still an unformed science, and one in which the everchanging human element is constantly to be reckoned with. Any' attempts to reduce things to formul therefore, is, to say the'least of it, a task of doubtful utility. 'And such formuhe may prove positively misleading --even dangerous--in the hands of young beginners at the subject who are not acquainted wth the many reservations