SHORTER NOTICE
Tins handsome new volume of the Britannica Book of the Year, covering events throughout the world in 1948, is the first to be published in London for ten years, and its seven hundred pages of analysis and exposition will form a valuable source of reference for librarians, students and journalists. The obituaries of the year and the short biographies of eminent contemporaries will be par- ticularly useful. There is perhaps little in the book to tempt the general reader, for style has been largely sacrificed to compression, but the contributors—more than 450 of them—usually speak with a certain amount of authority, and some, like Mr. Ivor Brown on the theatre and Mr. Rawle Knox on Eire, accomplish the considerable feat of making their articles readable as well as factual. The text is lightened by numerous photographs, many of which are interesting and unusual The editors, Mr. Walter Yust and Mr. William Clark, are to be congratulated ; and the price of the book, in present circum- stances, is reasonable.
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