Abstract

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The article presents information about several books. The book "The A B C of Technocracy," by Frank Arkright, is a mere primer on technocracy. In its ideas, and even in its phraseology, it follows closely the article on the subject by Howard Scott in the January issue of "Harpers Magazine." As the book is somewhat longer than the article, it cites more figures and examples. "The Cambridge Medieval History," vol. 7, "Decline of Empire and Papacy," is a history of Europe in the fourteenth century. Some of the subjects have their beginnings earlier and some run far into the following century. The period witnessed the decline in power and prestige of the Papacy, which contributed to its own defeats by playing petty European politics as an Italian state, and also of the empire, which in the previous century had dueled with the popes.