WORKS Or ItsPERENas.—Athena, a Year-Book of the Learned World (A.
and C. Black, 15s. net), is a new and useful publication which will replace the German handbook that held the field before the war. The first issue is restricted to the English. speaking world, but is none the less a substantial volume, as America has many universities. The learned institutions are arranged alphabetically, and in each case there is a brief note on the constitution and degrees preceding the list of the stafL The lists are not exhaustive, especially in the case of London, but the book will be very convenient for reference, more especially as it has a good index —Casten French-English, English-French Dictionary, which has had a long life, appears in a new edition under the care of Dr. E. A. Baker (Cassell, 7s. 6d. net). It is a cheap and convenient dictionary.— The Year-Book of the Universities of the Empire, 1918-20, edited by Mr. W. H. Dawson for the Universities Bureau of the British Empire (Bell, 15s. net), has reappeared after an interval, during which the universities were distracted by the war. It gives compact summaries of the calendars of all British Universities, as well as lists of the teaching staffs, and may be commended as a convenient and authoritative handbook. It is arranged geo- graphically and is well indexed. An appendix gives particulars of the war-work done by each university or college.— Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (Field Press, 30s. net) is the fifty-first issue of a standard authority. It has been revised with care, and is remarkably complete.—Paion's List of Schools and Tutors, 1920-21 (J. and J. Paton, 58.), is the twenty-third annual edition of a very useful reference book, which includes not merely information about schools for boys and for girls, but aloe notes on the professions, training colleges, special schools, and boarding schools on the Continent. Most of the entries art illustrated. The field of choice for an anxious parent seems very wide.
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