The Annual Register, 1907 (Longmans and Co., 18s.), has now
so well established a place that it is almost sufficient to notice its appearance. This ":Review of Public Events Abroad and at Home" is in two parts. Somewhat more than a half of Part I. is allotted to "English History." The rest gives us "Foreign and Colonial History." (Why, we may again ask, not have three sections in this order: Home, Colonial, Foreign P This distinction between "English" and "Colonial" is not logical. If we are to be critical, why not "British" rather than " English "?) In Part II. we have "A Chronicle," a summary of "Literature," "Science," "Art and Drama and Music," and, finally, an " Obituary."
With this we may mention The Statesman's Year-Book, Edited by J. Scott LAI% LL.D., with the Assistance of J. P. A. Renwick, M.A. (Macmillan and Co., 10s. 6d. net), another periodical volume so well established in popular favour that it is needless to praise it. The first impression made by the new issue is its increased size,—its 1,597 pages of last year are now 1,712. The British Empire naturally requires more space ; State administration in America has undergone developments; and there is more about Chins, and about Portugal. Altogether, the volume maintains, and more than maintains, the reputation of the work for com- pleteness.
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