Abstract
THE history of the world, which it is the main function of this annual volume to place on record, has gone through a troubled year, with many changes and upheavals in the old order of things, but the “Annual Register” maintains its old form and arrangement. British and Imperial history occupy, in a most readable narrative, about one-third of the book. Then comes the history of foreign States in about the same compass, followed by the usual chronicle of events, surveys of literature, art, drama, science, finance, and commerce, and finally the short biographies of eminent men and women in the year's obituary. The Constitution of the new Spanish Republic is given in full. The survey of the year's science occupies about eleven pages, divided between the biological and physical sciences. It is noteworthy that this work of reference has now reached its hundred and seventy-third year of issue.
The Annual Register: a Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad for the Year 1931.
Dr.
M.
Epstein
Edited by. Pp. xv + 316 + 169. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1932.) 30s. net.
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The Annual Register: a Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad for the Year 1931 . Nature 129, 816 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129816c0
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