A Timely Book

A book, entitled “The Crisis in Australian Finance, 1929-31,” to hand from Messrs. Angus & Robertson, provides a good example of timely authorship and enterprise in publish ing. Just at a moment when every citizen is faced with the gravest issues, and yet is profoundly puzzled because the matters which he must decide have their roots in a confusion of national economics, this book arrives to

explain the circumstances and assist the judg ment. It is not an essay—it is simply an intelligent collation of official documents, with suitable annotations, commencing with the Commonwealth Bank’s warning communi cation to the Federal Treasurer in October 1929 up to the Canberra Conference, and developments, of Pebruary-March, 1931. No man, reading this book, could have any doubt about the causes of Australia’s troubles, and the nature of the remedy. Every Australian elector should be compelled to read it.