6 JUNE 1914, Page 27

NEW EDITIONS. — The Statesman's Year Book, 1914. Edited by T. Scott

Keltie and M. Epstein. (Macmillan and Co. 102. 6d. net.)—The current edition of this indispensable work of reference gives an account of the new arrangements in the Balkans, with a map, and much fresh information about Turkey and China.—The Autocar Imperial Year Book, 1914. (Dille and Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—Designed in the first instance for Colonial readers, this review of the year's advances in automobiliem should be helpful also to British motorists.— Messrs. Constable and Co. send us the first eight volumes of a new collected edition of the well-known novels of "Maarten Heartens," in clearly printed volumes at 3s. 6d. each.— From the same publishers we have received a number of cheap reprints, amongst which we are glad to notice George Meredith's Selected Poems (Is. net) and Tragic Comedians (dd.), as well as Gissing's Private Papers of Henry Byecroft (Is. net), and Mr. H. C. Bailey's Master of Gray (6d.)—To the "Oxford Edition of Standard Authors" have been added Miss Proctor's Legends and Lyrics, and The Bee, and other Essays, by Oliver Goldsmith (Humphrey Milford, le. Bd. net each).—We have also received new editions of The Fair Hills of Ireland, by Stephen Gwynn (Maunsel and Co., 2a. 6d. net) ; The lied Hand of Ulster, by G. A. Birmingham (Smith, Elder, and Co., Is. net); and Ships that Pass in the Night, by Beatrice Harraden (William Blackwood and Sons, ls. net).