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 TING I'o IND1A o.91 being kep high and being varied from time to time in accordance with the current rate of interest. In his fifth chapter the Rsi Bahstint has many sensible things to propose for extending he work of the Agricultural Departments, and points out that the annual expenditure works out st only one piee (3pies) per head of the population; though it would be about 4 pies per head i[ he took the population of British India as divisor, as he should have done. He very rightly salvoestes an expansion of the Deprtment to ten times its present strength as to personnel and activities. Iu the 'next chapter follow suggestions for improvements and extension of canal irrigation; and in the seventh chapter we find a rather brief and sketchy outline of the possibilities of agricnlt,ire as s profession. Chapter YII notices the loss of rich manure to 'the country by the export consists of a few paragraphs ou in the Native -States. Chapter of bones; and Chapter IX the position of agriculture X is a summary of toll- elusious, and a long list of problems which the author would like to have referred to a Royal Commission to be appoin- ted to inquire into the conditions of Indian agriculture. There are 21 tables of statistics in the second part of the book, which cannot fail to be of use to students of Indian agriculture and national economy. A great deal of labor has evidently been devoted to compiling them. We tYust that there will be a sufficient sale of this book to encourage the anther to bring out a revised and enlarged editibn, in which these statistics (which mainly relate to 1912-18) will b continued for later years. . $veath Annml Report of the Patna College Chanakja Society (1916-17). The Knntaliue Press. pp. 72. We have once again the pleasure of reviewing a report which is s record of the useful work done and o[ the progress made by the Chsnakya Society during the session 1916-17. Thirteen ordinary meetings were held during the reports 'of the expeditious nndertaken year, ia which the and of the work road aud discussed. done by the iudlviduat members The spaeial feature of this year's port is the recordlug of the results of inquiries into local industries o[ Bahar owas, such as the gold lace dustry of Patna, the the iron f.oundry of Dluapore, oil mills,