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Ainencan Council on Foreign Relations, which. corresponds more or less to our Royal Institute of International Affairs, has done well to publish a Political Handbook of the 'World (Yale University Press, 8 2.50). It gives details of the Parliaments, the political parties and the Press in the various countries at the New Year. The editors, Mr. M. W. Davis and Mr. NY: H. Mallory, are to be congratu- lated on the convenient plan which they have adopted and in the general accuracy of the summaries of party programmes, the composithm Of the legislatures, and.fhe party affiliations of leading journals. Students of foreign policy will find the book useful ; it gives particulars that can be found in no other single book, and much that is inaccessible in English.