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 SHERRATT & HUGHES MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS. ECONOMIC SERIES. No. XII. UNEMPLOYMENT. By Prof. S. J. Chapman, M.A., M.Com., and H. M. Hallsworth, M.A., B.Sc. Demy 8vo, pp. xvi. 164. 2s. net, paper, 28. 6d. net, cloth. (Publication No. 45, 1909.) " On the whole, the authors oSei a solid contribution, both as regards facts and reasoning, to the solution of a peculiarly difficult and pressing social problem." — Cotton Factory Timet. "... reproduces in amplified form a valuable set of articles, giving the results of an investigation made in Lancashire, which lately appeared in the Manchester Guardian. By way of Introduction we have an examina- tion, not previously published, of the Report of the Poor-law Commission on Unemployment. There is a large accompaniment of Charts and Tables, and indeed the whole work bears the mark of thoroughness." — Cruardian. (Gabtsidb Bbfort, No. 9.) No. XIII. THE COTTON INDUSTEiY IN SWITZERLAND, VORALBERG AND ITALY. A Technical and Economic Study. By S. L. Besso, LL.B. Demy 8vo, pp. xv. 229. 3s. 6d. net. (Publication No. 54, 1910.) " The large amount of information gathered has been carefully arranged. . . . The work is a worthy one, interesting to the general reader, and valuable to the captain of commerce, and inevitably suggests the desirability of having the remaining countries of the Continent similarly surveyed .... this volume, which is well worth careful study by all who are interested in the social and economic conditions of textile workers abroad." — The Cotton Factory Times. " This volume may be heartily commended to the attention of all persons interested in every phase of cotton mill economics, and we congratulate Mr. Besso on the admirable manner in which he has set forth the results of his painstaking investigations. In these days of international comparisons, a series of volumes dealing in this way with every industrial country would be of considerable value to students of industrial and commercial affairs." — The Textile Mercury. ". . . . the facts and statistics the author marshals so clearly .... a skilled investigator. For the rest, this volume dods infinite credit alike to the author and to his University." — Morning Leader. , Soho Square, London, W.