THE ANNUAL REGISTER, 1937 Edited by M. Epstein
With each successive issue of the Annual Register one marvels at the thoroughness and extent of the survey of the domestic and foreign events occurring in the particular year under review which is presented. In this volume (Longmans, 3os.) which covers the year 1937, Part I is devoted to events in Great Britain=political, constitutional, economic, social and others—Imperial history and foreign history. (No fewer than 46 countries are dealt with and there is also a chapter on the League of Nations.) Part II provides a chronological table of interesting domestic events and this is followed by a comprehensive Retrospect of literature, science, art, finance and commerce, law, public documents and an obituary of eminent persons decea.sed 1937, The, public documents include the Irish Consti- tution, the U.S. Neutrality Act and the Convention abolishing the Egyptian capitulations. As in the past there is an admirably complete index. To many people the most interesting chapters will be those dealing with the Spanish war and the intervention of foreign Powers—those, including the -Prime Minister' who believe that the one side has not benefited more than the 'other from foreign intervention will be sur- -prisedt -and instructed,. by 'a:glance at this chapter; the outbreak of the Japanese aggression in China ; the last months of independent Austria ; and the condition of Czechoslovakia, which are the past, and possibly future, points
of tension in world politics. . '
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