The attention of the readers of the BULLETIN is called to a new volume (V) in the series, A History of American Life. The book is The Completion of Independence, 1790-1830 by Professor John Allen Krout of Columbia University and President Dixon Ryan Fox of Union College. The series is a social history. The recent book gives a very readable and effective account of various aspects of American development at the beginning of the period of great expansion and change in the nineteenth century. It is notable because of the way it treats the history of business.