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The article presents several news related to the world of economics that appeared in the 1911 issue of the journal "American Economic Review." The growth of the American Economic Association is encouraging. Between the date of the annual meeting and February 1, seventy new members were added. As the result of a conviction on the part of railway officials that there can be no permanent improvement in the relations between the railways and the people in general without a greater degree of mutual sympathy, and that cordial relations must necessarily be based upon a frank discussion, a Bureau of Railway Economics has been opened in Washington, with Logan G. McPherson, as the lecturer on Transportation and Dr. Frank Haigh Dixon, Professor of Economies, as Chief Statistician. The Bureau began immediately the accumulation of a railway library, which is designed to be as complete as it can be made, and to be freely at the disposal of any one who cares to use it. It contains at present approximately six thousand items, nearly all catalogued and on the shelves, in addition to a file of current literature, which, beginning in 1904, is being rapidly brought down to date.

The article introduces the library of the Textile Institute, known as the Institute's Library. Accordingly, its growth for the past three years has held out promises that it will reach a magnitude of the order felt to be desirable by those in charge of it. Its book section offers the collection of volumes purchased from the late Professor Fox, and is supplemented further from the library of the late Professor Myers. However, its main source lies on the review copy, which derived from all publishers who give these works for reviews of their books on textile or allied subjects. As an addition to its book section, the library of Trade Catalogue is now being constructed. This section will offer a set of catalogues by any of the leading textile machinists over the past 50 years.

The article offers information about what has been discussed at the meeting of the Council of the Institute last December 1931. Part of the discussion tackled about the arrangements for the next Annual Meeting of the members of the Textile Institute in 1932. Accordingly, the said discussion has reminisced what has transpired for almost 21 years of existence of the institute. Many recollections have been cultivated, during the latest as well as those meetings and gatherings happened in the past, and other events which were collectively known as the Celebrations of the Institute's Coming-of-Age. In this lieu, "A Twenty-one Years' Chronology of Textiles" has been released to remind everybody specially its members of the journey which the institute has been continuing so far.