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THE editors of the “Statesman's Year-Book,” gravely incommoded as they have been by the effects of the war, have met the situation successfully. The statistics given for enemy countries and Belgium are for the most part of no more than historical interest, but they have been revised to the latest dates possible, and will be of value in the future for purposes of comparison. Special revision is stated to have been applied to the sections on Turkey, China, Greece, Spain, and the Panama Canal zone. The accounts of Chinese government and administration are very clear so far as they go, and the statistical tables for this country have been decidedly improved. To the introductory tables some pages have been added specifically dealing with the war. The dates of nineteen separate declarations of war between July 28, 1914, and May 23, 1915, are furnished. The list of principal events of the war might well have been fuller, but there is a useful catalogue of the principal official and unofficial war publications.
The Statesman's Year Book.
Edited by Dr. J. Scott Keltie, assisted by Dr. M. Epstein. Fifty-second annual publication. Revised. Pp. lxxxiv + 1536. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1915.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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The Statesman's Year Book . Nature 95, 643 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095643a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/095643a0