15 DECEMBER 1917, Page 20

The Yearbook of the Universities of the Empire, 1916 and

1917 (H. Jenkins, 70. 6d. net), has been published for the Universities Bureau of the British Empire after an interval of two years in order, as we may say, to keep the University flag flying, though academie institutions have been rudely disturbed by the war and are in a very abnormal condition. Particulars as to the staffs of all the Universities of the Empire, in alphabetical order, are recorded in this useful book. Hong Kong, for example, comes between Glasgow and the National University of Ireland, which is discreetly separated by a good many pages from the University of Dublin.