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THE new edition of this valuable year-book has been slightly reduced in size without lessening its usefulness. Considerable difficulties have had to be faced in the revision of the statistics of belligerent, and especially enemy, countries, but these have been overcome in many cases. The value of the book is enhanced by the figures in most countries being given for at least the last pre-war year in addition to later years, where, the latter were available. There are four maps, showing respectively: States engaged in the war up to May 10, 1917; Arabia, with political divisions; the railways of South America; and the canals and inland waterways of the United Kingdom. The additions and corrections contain material received too late to be embodied in the work, and include a section on Arabia. Accurate information about Russian railways is difficult enough to obtain in peace time, and the editors have been wise to give a list of lines “being built, approved for construction, or projected” without further discrimination. The Amur line, however, is now built, and we believe has been in use for a year or more. Among other useful matter in the introductory tables are the figures for the world's production of various metals, sugar, and grain. The list of the chief events of the war is brought up to May, 1917, and a further list of the chief books on the war is added.
The Statesman's Year-Book, Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1917.
Edited by Dr. J. Scott Keltie, assisted by Dr. M. Epstein. Fifty fourth annual publication. Revised after official returns. Pp. xliv + 1504 + plates 4. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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The Statesman's Year-Book, Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1917 . Nature 99, 423 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099423a0
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