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 GORNNT PUBLICATIONS .Rview of "The Tra of Ind " i 1915-16. DnTT O Srrsrcs, Io. Csleut: 8urinndent of Government Proting. 1916. pp. , 11, . Price ,4s. 1. The view of Tre my  rsrd ss the premier publition of the DirWr of 8tisties. It is s iniugly iuresting survey of the inlznd snd foreign eommee of the Indisn Empire during the fineisl yesr. It is slwsys mpil' with t re so that sn extrrsry smount of informs- tion s 1 the most impotent trsde sisties are eondend with s nvenient eomss. Whether the rder  rested  the eou of trsde  s whole or in the progress of sny tieur eommity,  the bsnee of trade d imrts ot trure, or iu eusWms, shipping snd eights, he will find in this volme much elrly sted fomstion on the subjt of enquy. In the first ehspter we find s smwey of the genersl ehsr- rties of the y, in which the following subjts sre dlt with: the to -rne tre, with distinction made twn privs merehsndi snd thst shipd on Governmen ount; the effts of the wsr on forei mmee; the imrts d exerts of Indisn merehdi, with s rsph on m-exerts, follow by s tion on 6overnment stores. Thee follows an internting and imrtsn tion which dels th the y's imrts d esrts of gold d silver, h eo d blion, followed by s brief noe on the ln o[ re which shows s lgely iuer b in fsvor of Ind  m with the preous yr. In the next ion the e in the volume of trsde is eibited by eeulsting the ue of the tol te on the bis of the pris prevailing in She previous yr. Whs there is s distet dline in e cdsted vslue, i.z., vole, of imrts, there was s mk iner  the rle vue of exerts. T ne rt is W show s shrke of the tol volume of foren trsde by 1' r nt. Combing the tuly rord vslues of 191-16 h the rleulsd vues, we d ths the sversge rim of ps wss 4 r nt. Ths first ehspr n&udes th s tion on wholele prices in Ind in 191-16, in which She dex nmrs of grou of eommitiss sre quod, whilst here is  s no on eges of wes. Iu She nd pr he tre with sl uutriss is dt th  a eomrstive mner d 1or charts ar