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 BRITISH HArD FOREIGN 188 anal the get up o! the volume very neat, anal some o! our Govornmon lopartmonts, with their abominably printed blue books, might 1o worse than copy the style o! the Sixteenth Financial anal Economic Annual o! Japan. The Beal German Rivalry: Yesterday, To-d.!/ and To-moow. By S Swine SXT, M.. LL.D., Member of Advisory Committee of Royal College of Art. London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., Adelphi Terrace. 1916. pp. 80. Price Is. not. The author deals "as a business man .addressing business men" with the problems which will arise after the war, in prey/cling employment for the returned soldiers and for "the great army of women who have replaced men in many industries." He is also concerned with the general question of the ompstition of British trle with that of Germany, and he makes a very powerful plea for a general interest in edneation and its application to the inlustr/al and professional X ' needs of England. He traces the growth of German e partaken and suceess to the national belief in education and the seriousness with hieh it has been regarded. After examining the present industrial position in England he quotes many authorities as to the n of increased efitcienoy, both of labour and o! lireetion. He pleads for equality of opportunity to be given to all in every corner o[ the United Kingdom and urges the creation of a real national system of education, equal to the task of fitting young men and women for their task in life. We think that Sr SwOre Smith has accurately dianos6l the eakness of Grea BHtan n regard to nlustrial eompeti- ton, that s, in competition wth such enterprsin peoples as the Americans and the Germans; and much that he says about education is appli.eable with still greater force to India. He also deals briefly, and we think sennally, with tariff policy after the war, and points out that it would not be wise policy for England to place obstacles iu the way of her own trade simply to injure he trade .of. a competitor. He is not very hopeful that the Allies will be able to find a common economic policy. We may at least aree wth hm that the matter requbes the deepest enquiry aml consRleration, aml that it would be false policy to attempt permanently to lepart from sound principles ir order to grasp at an economic phantom which would speedily dissolve through the natural forces-of