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Hazcll's Annual (Hazell, Watson, and Viney, 3s. 6d. net) com-

pletes with this issue its quarter of a century, and presents improvements in arrangement, &c. We feel, we must own, a certain doubt about signed articles. These publications of " cyclopsedic records of men and affairs for use in 1910" should be as neutral as possible, and the signed article does not tell this way.

With this may be mentioned The Churchman's Year-Book and Cyclopaedia (A. R. Mowbray and Co., ls. net) ; The Farmer's Red Book and Agricultural Annual (3 Wellington Street, Strand, 1s. net) ; and The Winter Sports Annual, Edited by E. Wroughton (1 Mitre Court, Fleet Street, 2s.)