WORKS OF REFERENCE.
We must record the appearance of that elephantine and
wholly indispensable work, The Post Office London Directory with Country Suburbs for 1923 (Kelly's Directories, Ltd., 55s. net), in its 12e4th issue. The Directory, which now contains over 3,903 pages, with a large and good map, is a wonderful production : we have tested it repeatedly
without finding it in fault. The seating plans of the theatres form a useful new feature. Among the trades recorded for the first time we notice " cocktail shakers manufacturers " and " motor-hearse builders "—two trades between which Mr. Scrymgeour would doubtless trace a connexion.
Willing's Press Guide for 1928 (James Willing, Ltd., 2s. 6d. net) is another book that is in constant use in many offices, and the fiftieth issue, which has evidently been revised with care, deserves a friendly word of recognition.—A List qf English Clubs for 1928, edited by E. C. Austen-Leigh (Spottis- woode, Bsillantyne, 7s. 6d. net), is the twenty-first issue of a familiar and useful little book. We observe that the editor has at last recognized the Bolsheviks, in so far that he has struck off his list the English, or so-called English, clubs in Russia, which were long since destroyed by Trotsky. We find no mention of Irak, with the thriving clubs at Baghdad, Basra and elsewhere, but the list of 8,950 clubs is, on the whole, comprehensive and accurate.—We may also notice The Catholic Directory for 1923 (Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 2s. 6d. net), as usual admirably printed and edited, and in every respect a trustworthy book of reference for the Roman Catholic community in Great Britain.
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