OF BOOKS The style is not that of an impartial mic phenomena, but that of an create an impression by rhetoric. bined an unbiassed judgment with student of econo. enthusiast who wants to If the author had corn- the hard work that he presumably did, the results would have been more satisfac- tory. There is no doubt that there is muel? room for improvement in the agricultural and industrial development of this country, and the author's point of view is worthy of eousideration ;. but we have no liking for his method of parading figures of all books and dooumonts of of his sermon "Poverty of passages without reference to can be made to suppor? any apparently conclusive manner. kinds and quoting passages from various dates to prove the theme perpetuated". A patient seleotiou their oontext or reliability general proposition in au Ewrly Bewnus History I.C.S., Oxford: Price 4s 6d. of B?ngwl. The Clarendon By F.D. ASCOLI, M.A., Press. 1917. pp. 272. This is an exceptionally interesting and useful little book for students of th? economic aud administrative history of the eighteenth and ?arly nineteenth?oenturies. An introduc- tion describes the scope of the book; and the chapters following it relate successively: (1) the rise of Bengal as an administrative unit from the annexation by the Meghals till 1765 when the Company was appointed Dewan of the Pro- vinces of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa; (2) the characteristics of the Hoghal revenue system, and their suooessive revenue settlements; (8) the British revenue administration fram 1765 to 1786, which is divided into three periods: hesita- tion, centralization, and completion of centralization; (4) the per?od of decentralization, first part, 1786-1790; (5) the Grant-Shoce eontroversy--Graut's case; (7)' The Shore-Cornwallis Permaueut Settlement; (8) Permaneut Settlement. oon/roversy, The obj6ots (6) Shore's ease, leading up to the and eftcots of ?he of Commons, whioh was to Bengal. At the end sary. The book is very issued in 1812, so far as it relates of '?he book is a very useful glos- clearly arranged and divided into The first part of the book closes ?vi?h a useful synops[s o[ events; and ?he second par?. consists of a reprint of the famous Fifth Report of the Select Comnti?tse of the House
