THE ANNUAL REGISTER, 1902.
The Annual Register, 1902. (Longmans and Co. 18s.)—Mr. T. Baines, with the help of various collaborators, reviews the polities, the literature, and the art of the past year, chronicles its events, serious and sportive, supplies obituary notices of persons, eminent or notorious, deceased within its limits of time, furnishes, in short, a sort of acta annua of the world, with the United Kingdom as its central point. We cannot' do more than express a general sense of the i'mpEutiality, width of view, and accuracy of detail with which the work has been done. The result makes no great pre- tensions. One might call it a compilation; but it really implies, besides unfailing vigilance and untiring industry, good sense, a fine feeling of proportion, and a general savoir-faire. We may give as an instance the treatment of the passage-of-arms between Count von Billow and Mr. Chamberlain re the South African War. Many things have to be omitted or epitomised in such a sum- mary; but we feel that this had to be given at length. How thankful we should be that it was Mr. Chamberlain, not Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, who.had to take up the challenge I
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