16 MARCH 1889, Page 23

Mr. Scott Keltie has at last brought the Statesman's Year - Book

(twenty-sixth annual publication) to such a pitch of perfection as regards arrangement, variety of contents, and accuracy in points of detail, that it can hardly be improved. We are even unable, thanks to Mr. Keltie's vigilant editing, to criticise the volume, as we have done for a year or two back. All that we can now suggest is, that he should not allow it to run beyond one thousand pages, and that he should condense somewhat more than he has yet done, the purely political information he supplies. The tables of statistics prefixed to the Statesman's Year-Book are a multum in parvo of the most useful knowledge.