Capsule Review July 1939 Issue A Century of Bank Rate by R. G. HawtreyReviewed by Robert Gale WoolbertAbout the Author: My FA Anthologies Read more by Robert Gale Woolbert In This Review A Century of Bank Rate By R. G. Hawtrey Longmans, 1938 328 pp. $4.00 Purchase Facebook Twitter Email My FA Saved Articles Print How the Bank of England uses its discount rate as a means of monetary regulation, explained by one of its officials.