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THIS book is for the most part an abridgment and rearrangement of the matter composing the same author's “Industrial and Commercial Geography,” reviewed in NATURE of February 26, 1914 (vol. xcii., p. 707), though this fact is disguised, to some extent, by the titles given to the sections and chapters. Part i. is entitled “The United States,” but the chapters are, for the most part, the same, even in title, as those which come under the general heading, “Industrial Geography,” in the earlier and larger work, but with the omission or transference to another part of the book of paragraphs which do not properly come under the head of “The United States.” The second part is entitled “Foreign Countries,” and here comes in most of the new matter; but even here so much is made up of paragraphs derived from the source just indicated that it requires a very close comparison of the two volumes to ascertain how much altogether is new. A thir part is entitled “World Commerce,” and this is entirely composed of chapters abridged from the corresponding chapters of either part i. or part ii. of the “Industrial and Commercial Geography.” A statistical appendix is added, containing tables transferred from the body of the earlier work, brought up to date where necessary, in addition to a few others, these latter including elaborate and useful international comparisons.
Commerce and Industry.
By Prof. J. R. Smith. Pp. viii + 596. (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1916.) Price 1.40 dollars.
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C., G. Commerce and Industry . Nature 97, 539 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097539a0
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