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THE “Statesman's Year-Book” makes its ever-welcome appearance. The editors, Dr. Scott Keltic and Dr. Epstein, have been able to obtain much statistical information regarding the belligerent countries, and, in the case of Germany, to include facts and figures based upon the latest officially published information. Maps show the railway schemes in Asiatic Turkey and in Africa respectively, and the distribution of Germans both in the world as a whole and, in greater detail, in the United States. The introductory tables provide a world review of the production of wheat, sugar, ships, etc., and usually include the year under review. There is an illuminating summary which deals with the Great War in regard to population, books, loans, and war finance. The Allies outnumber the Central Empire Alliance by 5 to i; the war has cost already more than 1000,000,000l, of which a quarter has been spent by Britain, nearly a quarter by Germany, and a fifth by Russia. Mr. John Leyland has revised the information concerning the “navies of the world in succession to the late Mr. Fred T. Jane. We cull a few facts at random: There is a volunteer corps among the 2328 males in the Falkland Islands; Oregon University, organised in 1876, has 108 professors; the Free City of Bremen in 1913 exported goods valued at 10,110,000l to Great Britain, about 9 per cent, of the total exports of the port.
The Statesman's Year-Book. Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the year 1916.
Edited by Dr. J. Scott Keltie, assisted by Dr. M. Epstein. Pp. xliv + 1560 + maps 4. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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The Statesman's Year-Book Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the year 1916. Nature 97, 479 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097479a0
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