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TEE Daily Mail Year Book is as useful as ever. Nowhere is so much information packed in so small a compass. The bio- graphies are excellent and well selected, and the statistical pages, e.g., those devoted to the National Debt and Super Tax, are clear and well arranged. A very interesting article is that devoted to " Changing London." It well illustrates the Lure of London with which we recently dealt. Within the past year we have had royal visits from the King and Queen of Rumania, the King and Queen of Italy, the King and Queen of Denmark, and the Prince Regent of Abyssinia. In addition to these actual " State visitors," there were plenty of incognito visits, and also visits of minor royalties. Of states- men we had the French and Belgian Premiers, the American Secretary of State, and, of course, the American and Canadian Barristers, and finally the American delegates connected with the profession of Advertisement and Publicity. We are told that when the holiday season was at its height in London there were no fewer than 157,000 visitors, of whom the United States accounted for 33,000, Australia 16,000, and Canada 10,000. That is excellent hearing. The account of the residential changes in London is well worth studying. The most memorable fact is the disappearance of the great houses. Devonshire House is actually coming down, Grosvenor House has been sold, and Norfolk House has been let, and, as the writer notes, some of the great and famous houses in Carlton House Terrace are being converted into fiats. But, though that is to be regretted, London is in no way falling into decay, but, on the contrary, is becoming more comely and well- groomed than ever before.
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