This Week's Books
WE have just. added to our reference library an important book which every student of international politics will want : it is Mr. H. T. Montague Bell's The Near East. Year Book and Who's Who, 1927 (The Near East. 25s.). There is nothing so good in reference hooks, except Europa, 1927, which deals with. another field and aims at a different goal. Here, clarified and condensed under the supervision of an editor known for his wisdom and sympathy throughout the Balkans, will be found information which is of the greatest value and which must have been laboriously, if not painfully, acquired. Some of it is better reading than the average novel, and all of it is of great interest. Only an expert on the Near East could have attempted the task and we are grateful to the author for having succeeded so well in supplying us with something that (now that it is available) merchants and journalists and politicians will discover they have been needing since 1919.' May The Near East Year Book prosper and continue from strength to strength : the more facts ire have abOut our .cOmplioated. world (especially those unrestful regions lying, say, between Laibach and Mosul) the better Air the cause of peace.
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