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trated. Longmans, Green & Co., New York. Pp. 321 + 19 (index). $3 net.) NO one is better qualified to write a book on malingering to secure benefits of workmen's compensation than Sir John Collie, both because of his large medical experience and his familiarity with the workings of the British laws. Speaking at the International Medi cal Congress last August, Sir John, who is a member of the Govern ment advisory committee on the National Insurance Act, expressed the opinion that the extent of the evil of malingering to obtain benefits under that statute was much overrated. The vast majority of those who gave the appearance of shamming, he said, were persons of poor physique whose standard of health was at best below normal. He thus showed himself free from any tendency to exaggerate the dangers for which public officials must be on the lookout, and while the present work "deals with a very dark side of human nature," Sir John may be trusted not to The paintbook it any is adarker semi-technical than it really treatise is. on the medical aspects of malingering which deals comprehensively with the whole subject, and should aid greatly in helping to distinguish between genuine and feigned symptoms of diseases. It is the best book in the field and will undoubtedly be of use in helping us Americans to be on our guard against abuses in our own new and compara tively untried systems of sickness in surance. BRISCO'S ECONOMICS OF BUSI NESS Economics of Business. By Norris A. Brisco, Ph.D., F.R.H.S., Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, sometime Fellow in Economics in Colum bia University, author of The Economic Policy of Robert Walpole, Departmental Editor for Canada of Book of Knowledge, Department of Political

millan Company, New York. Pp. xiv, 383 + 7 (index). ($1.50 net.) ACCORDING to the author, the chief difference between the em ployer of the nineteenth century and of the twentieth is that the latter treats the employee as a man and not as a machine. The employee, to do his best work, must be led and not driven, and the best way to awaken his enthu siasm for his work is a problem for the future. The foregoing is to be taken as an illustration of the tone of Mr. Brisco's book, which is a simple text-book on the economics of production in which the human factor receives a liberal share of attention. Business men will get many good ideas from the very helpful treat ment of the numerous problems of mini mizing costs and promoting efficiency. The book is also designed for class-room use, for which it is well suited by rea son of the writer's familiarity with what leading economists have written on the subjects, and the excellent bibliographi cal notes appended to each chapter.

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