. Review of reviews and world's work. s, and iscompiled by Henry Randall Waite. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS. The first portion of an elaborate study of The Taxa-tion of the Liquor Trade, by Joseph Rowntree andArthur Sherwell, two well-known English students ofthe liquor problem, has recently appeared (Macmillan).The volume is concerned with public-houses,hotels, restaurants, theaters, railway bars, and clubs asthey are managed In Great Britain. It also includestwo chapters on the subject of license taxation in theUnited States, giving the varied experiences of suchStates as Massac
. Review of reviews and world's work. s, and iscompiled by Henry Randall Waite. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS. The first portion of an elaborate study of The Taxa-tion of the Liquor Trade, by Joseph Rowntree andArthur Sherwell, two well-known English students ofthe liquor problem, has recently appeared (Macmillan).The volume is concerned with public-houses,hotels, restaurants, theaters, railway bars, and clubs asthey are managed In Great Britain. It also includestwo chapters on the subject of license taxation in theUnited States, giving the varied experiences of suchStates as Massachusetts, New York, and chief purpose of the writers in this volume is toshow the inadefiuacy of the existing scale of taxationin Great Britain. While the tendency in that countrylias been steadily in the direction of limitation on thegranting of licjuor licenses, so that there are said to beactually fewer public-houses in P^ngland to-day thanthere were in 1880, there has been no increase whatever ?^^^T!^?!??JyV-S, JOSEPH ROWNTREE. in the tax. The argument of the book is that any policyof limitation should be accompanied by a correspond-ing increased taxation, since such limitation must in-evitably result in a marked increase of license values. Another English work that has a special interest andtimeliness at the present moment in this countrjis A. Pratts volume on Railways and TheirRates (New York : E. P. Dutton & Co.). This writerdevotes special attention to the complaints made fromtime to time in England on the subject of rates andcharges, and also institutes an interesting comparisonbetween the railways of Great Britain and those of theContinent of Euroije. A series of photographs at theend of the volume illustrates in a striking manner thediminutive freight-car equipment of the English appendix discusses the British canal problem. Piofessor John A. Ryan, who is a priest in theRoman Catholic Church and a teaclier in St. PaulsSeminary, o
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