Worms of REFERENCE.—The Annual Register for 1920 (Longmans, 30s. net)
is well written and commendably accurate. The review of a crowded and anxious year shows a sense of proportion and touches on all the salient episodes at home and abroad. The section devoted to public documents is lengthy, and includes the Jutland dispatches and Lord Milner's Egyptian proposals. There is a good index. We do not know what we should do without the Annual Register. Its usefulness increases with its age.—The Indian Year Book, 1921, edited by Sir Stanley Reed (Times of India Office, 187 Fleet Street, 10s. net), is now in its eighth year. It is a remarkable book, which seems to deal with every aspect of Indian affairs— government, diplomacy, trade, finance, education, sport, and even archaeology—and includes a compact gazetteer, lists of officials and of the members of the new councils, and a review of the past year, as well as a capital index. For anyone con- cerned in any way with India the book is really indispensable. —The Alliance Year Book for 1921, edited by George H Wilson (Headley, 2s.), is the annual handbook of the United Kingdom Alliance. Though largely devoted to controversial articles in favour of Prohibition, it contains also some useful statistical tables and a very full account of the first Local Veto polls in Scotland.
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