WORKS or REFEEENCE.—The New Haxell Annual for 1922, edited by
Dr. T. A. Ingram (H. Fronde and Hodder and Stough- ton, 5s. net), deserves a special word of welcome, because its price has been reduced by half-a-crown—the first reduction of the kind that we have noticed for years past. Certain sections of the book have been omitted, but the official and general infor- mation seems to be as complete as ever. The full tables of War casualties are repeated with additional figures. Hazen is an excellent book, and its thirty-seventh issue is thoroughly to be commended.—The Catholic Directory, 1922 (Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 3s. 6d. net), is the eighty-fifth issue of the well- known ecclesiastical and educational handbook of the Roman Catholic Church. It is well printed and well indexed.— A List of English Clubs in all Parts of the' World for 1922, edited by Mr. E. C. Austen-Leigh (Spottiswoode, Ballantyne, 7s. 6d.), is now in its thirtieth year. It mentions 3,936 clubs, including 1,738 golf clubs. For Great Britain the list is trustworthy. We regret, however, to notice that the clubs in Petrograd, long since destroyed by the Bolsheviks, are still given as if nothing had happened to them.—The China Year-Book, 1921-22, edited by Mr. H. G. W. Woodhead, the editor of the Peking and Tientsin Times (Tientsin Press, Simpkin, Marshall, 30s. net), is a formidable volume of over a thousand pages, which will be of the greatest possible use to all who are concerned with Chinese trade or Chinese politics. It deals very fully with the main problems of China and its statistics were revised up to last summer. The editor rightly includes a number of documents, such as the new Consortium agreement, and a lengthy chapter explaining the grievances which China has laid before the Powers at Washington. At the end of the book is a railway map of China, which shows incidentally that the Shantung line is a very small part of the existing railway system.
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