NEW BOOKS.

The article presents a list of several books. some of the books included in the list are: "Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the American Foundrymen's Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 8 to 11, 1929," edited by R.E. Kennedy; "Developments in the Electrical Industry During 1929," by J. Liston; "Trends in Location of the Women's Clothing Industry," by M.A. Mager; "The Pulp and Paper Industry in Canada, With Special Reference to the Export of Pulpwood," M.A. Mager." In the book "Labor and Silk," by G. Hutching, the facts and figures presented by the author impress the reader with the stupendous chaos of an industry employing over one million workers, paying these workers the weekly average wage of dollar 18.46, and creating textile products worth more than five million dollars. The study is provocative of one demand on the part of the reader-control. Though the study is primarily concerned with the silk and rayon phases of the textile industry, it Includes valuable material on the cotton and woolen industries. The industry is full of anachronisms, large international mergers in rayon and silk, flourish side by side with "cockroach establishments" that cut and undercut on prices, wages, and materials.