BOOKS or REFEBE,NCE.-77ic Municipal Year - Book of the United Kingdom for
1913. Edited by Albert E. Cave. (Municipal Journal, Limited. 15s. net.)—Every branch of local govern- ment is exhaustively dealt with in the twenty-eight sections of this book. A special feature of the present edition is the section on town planning, which has been entirely rewritten.—The Magistrate's General Practice. By Charles Milner Atkinson. (Stevens and Sons. 20s.)—This valuable work has been thoroughly revised, and a tenth edition of it is now issued.
The China Year-Book, 1913. By H. T. Montague Bell and H. G. W. Woodhead. (Routledge and Sons. 103. net.)—The admini-
stration, the commerce and industries, and the natural features of the new Chinese Republic are elaborately dealt with in this year- book, of which the second issue has just appeared. An interesting commercial map of China and a good index add considerably
to the book's value.—The Official Year-Book of the Church of England, 1913. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 3s.)
—Our readers need no reminder as to the character and useful-
ness of this volume.—The Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland (Charles Griffin and Co.
7s. 6d.) contains a record of the work laid before the various literary and scientific organizations during the session 1911-1912. —The English Catalogue of Books for 1912 (Sampson Low.) consists of a list, with full particulars, of the books issued last year in the United Kingdom, arranged alphabetically in a single list, both under their titles and the names of their authors. —We have also received The Foreign Office List for 1913,
edited by Godfrey E. P. Hertslet (Harrison and Sons, 10s. 6d.),
.Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench (Dean and Son. 7s. 6d. net.), and The Newspaper Press Directory, 1913 (C. Mitchell and Co. 2s.)—Two volumes have recently been added to the "Nelsan Encyclopaedic Library," namely, Nelson's Encyclopaedia Year Book, 1912-13 and the Encyclopaedia of Industrialism (Nelson and Sons. is. net each.)—The aim of the latter volume is described as being to give an account of the problems, both practical and theoretical, which arise directly out of our modern development of manufactures.
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