Money, Prices, Credit, and Banking.

The article presents information on various books on money, prices, credit, and banking published in June, 1929. Some of the books included are "Stabilization of Prices: A critical Study of the Various Plan Proposed for Stabilization," by Joseph S. Lawrence. This book gives a list of all of the plans for stabilizing the purchasing power of money which are of recent origin, with criticisms of each plan as well as a study of the possible effectiveness of the various means by which stabilization can be accomplished. It is being compiled from the writings of the best known advocates of stabilization, official documents and banking and monetary statistics. "Banking and Currency Development in South Africa. 1652-1927, With an Appendix on the Rise of Saving Banking in South Africa," by E.H.D. Arndt. Though on account of their geographical dissociation, the commercial and political connections between the people of the United States and South Africa have never bulked large, the similarities of their economic and political expansion furnish the basis for a permanent useful mutual interest in each other.