BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Business Finance : Robert Oliver, Merchant of Baltimore, 1783–1819. By S tuart W. B ruchey . Corporate Finance. By E lvin F. D onaldson . Patterns of Farm Financial Structure. By D onald C. H orton . Modern Corporation Finance. By W illiam H. H usband and J ames D. D ockeray . A Case Study of Balloting Regulation: The Boston and Maine Recapitalizes, 1948–1953. By R obert L. M asson . Essays on Business Finance. By M erwin H. W aterman et al. Consumer Finance : Financing the American Consumer. By C arl A. D auten . Insurance : Trends and Problems in the Distribution of Property-Liability Insurance. By J ohn S. B ickley . Group Life Insurance. By D avis W. G regg . Casualty Insurance: An Analysis of Hazards, Policies, Insurers and Rates. By C. A. K ulp . Investments : The Stock Market. By G eorge L. L effler . The Role of Regional Security Exchanges. By J ames E. W alter . Money and Banking : Business Forecasting in Practice: Principles and Cases. Edited by A dolph G. A bramson and R ussell H. M ack . Studies in the Quantity Theory of Money. Edited by M ilton F riedman . Economic Growth and Instability. By D. H amberg . The Savings Bank of Baltimore, 1818–1866: A Historical and Analytical Study. By P eter L. P ayne and L. E. D avis . Money and Banking. By C harles L. P rather The Detroit Money Market, 1934–1955. By G. W alter W oodworth . Public Finance : Social Security and Public Policy. By E veline M. B urns . 1957 U.S. Excise Tax Guide. By C ommerce C learing H ouse . Regional Income: Studies in Income and Wealth. By C onference on R esearch in I ncome and W ealth . The Estate Tax. By J ames B. L ewis . State Retail Sales Taxation , By C linton V. O ster . Economic and Social Security: Public and Private Measures against Economic Insecurity. By J. C. T urnbull , C. A. W illiams , and E. F. C heit .