Book Reviews

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Group Differences in Urban Fertility , by Clyde V. Kiser. Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Company. 1942. xii, 284 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by Frank Lorimer Contraception and Fertility in the Southern Appalachians , by Gilbert Wheeler Beebe. Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Company. 1942. xii, 274 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by Margaret Jarman Hagood Public Health Statistics , by Marguerite F. Hall. New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc. 1942. xxii, 408 pp. $5.50. Reviewed by Clyde V. Kiser Refugee Settlement in the Dominican Republic , A Survey Conducted under the Auspices of the Brookings Institution. Washington: The Brookings Institution. 1942. xvi, 410 pp. $4.00. Reviewed by Erich W. Zimmermann Consumer Instalment Credit and Economic Fluctuations , by Gottfried Haberler. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research. 1942. xix, 239 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by James F. Cusick Farm-Mortgage Credit Facilities in the United States , by Donald C. Horton, Harald C. Larsen and Norman J. Wall. Washington, D. C.: United States Government Printing Office. Miscellaneous Publications No. 478. United States Department of Agriculture. 1942. vii, 262 pp. 55 cents. Reviewed by John B. Schneider Business Behavior 1919–1922 , by Wilson F. Payne. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1942. xi, 215 pp. $1.50. Reviewed by V. P. Timoshenko Commodity Statistics, The 1942 Commodity Year Book. New York: Commodity Research Bureau. 1942. 294 pp. $5.00, and Commodity Year Book. New York: Commodity Year Book. New York: Commodity Research Bureau, Inc. 1942. 413 pp. $7.50. Reviewed by Oscar L. Endler Make or Buy , by James W. Culliton. Boston: Harvard University, Bureau of Business Research. 1942. iv, 130 pp. $1.50. Reviewed by Charles E. Young Wool and the War , by Hiram S. Davis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Research Report No. 6. 1942. xi, 107 pp. SO cents. Reviewed by R. R. Renne Wartime Rationing and Consumption. New York: Columbia University Press. League of Nations Publication. 1942. II. A. 2. 87 pp. $1.00. Reviewed by M. K. Bennett Statistical Methods Applied to Agricultural Economics , by Frank A. Pearson and Kenneth R. Bennett. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1942. vii, 443 pp. $4.00. Reviewed by E. L. Butz Fundamental Statistics in Psychology and Education , by J. P. Guilford. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1942. xi, 333 pp. $3.25. Reviewed by Martin A. Brumbaugh An Outline of Probability and Its Uses , by Maurice C. Holmes. Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Company. 1936. viii, 119 pp. $1.50. Reviewed by E. C. Molina Seven-Place Values of Trigonometric Functions , compiled by J. Peters. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 1942. $7.50. Reviewed by Kenneth N. Ogle