The first condition of answering these questions is an impartial survey of the actual facts as they exist today. Mr. Carter Goodrich's book supplies it. He is concerned not with theory, but with practice. His object is not to propound any doc trine, to suggest any reforms or to formulate a judgment as to the merits or demerits of any fea tures in the industrial system. It is simply to o?er the materials without the possession of which these exercises, however exhilarating, are apt to be sterile. He has set himself the question.