2 JUNE 1923, Page 20

The Statesman's Year Book, 1923. Edited by Sir J. Scott

Keltie and Dr. M. Epstein. (Macmillan. 20s. net.)

The editors of the most valuable of all books of reference for the current affairs of the world appear, in the sixtieth issue now published, to have almost returned to what Mr. Harding calls normalcy." They provide statistics even for Bolshevik Russia and the infant Irish Free State and are only baulked by the Turkish chaos. They give Turkey, shorn of the Arab lands, a population of 14,500,000, but the figure, to which no date is assigned, seems disproportionately high. The intro- ductory matter includes, with the usual tables, a useful section on the League of Natio:ins and maps of Ireland and Palestine.