Boons or REFEEENCE.—The Post Office London Directory for 2917 (Kelly's
Directories, 45s.), including the county suburbs in one great volume, has made its appearance with commendable punctuality for the New Year. It has been revised with the usual care and very recent events are noted ; for example, the new Government are recorded on an inserted slip before p. 83, and the return of Mr. Kennedy Jones for the Hornsey Division is embodied in the Parliamentary section. We have tested the book for changes in private addresses and have not once been disappointed. For a book of over three thousand pages there could be no higher praise, especially in time of war. This is the hundred and eighteenth annual issue of " Kelly," and there seems no limit to its growth, particularly in the suburbs. If the Registration of Business Firms Bill is passed and the names of the actual partners in every firm have to be disclosed, there will, as the publishers anticipate, have to be very extensive changes in, and additions to, next year's issue of this invaluable work.—The New Hazel' Annual and Almanack for 1917 (Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, 38. 6d. net) is so called because it has passed into new hands and has been greatly en- larged and improved under the editorship of Dr. T. A. Ingram. The many pages devoted to the war contain a great deal of accurate infor- mation in a compact form, with some maps. The almanack is a new and useful feature, and the official lists are as usual given prominence. The chapter on aviation, with a long list of the Allies' important raids on the enemy, deserves special note.—The Scottish Church and University Almanack, 1917 (Edinburgh : Macniven and Wallace, Is. 3d. net) contains lists of the Scottish ministers, clergy, priests, and professors, with much miscellaneous information. This is the book in which to look for details of the smaller sects like the Free Presbyterians ,and the United Original Seceders.—The Cambridge University Calendar for 1910-17 (Cambridge University Press, 7s. 6d. net) is as large as usual, though in 1915-16 them matriculated only 344 undergraduates, barely a fourth of the usual number, and in Easter term, 1916, only 712 men were in residence. A special chapter is given to the war and the re- arrangements which it has rendered necessary. By the autumn of 1915 Cambridge had given 2,842 officers to the Army, besides many hundreds in the ranks, and the University is now a great centre of military instruc- tion.— Vinfon's Agricultural Almanac and Diary, 1917 (Vinton and Co., Is.) is a practical little book with a mass of statistics to which even the layman will turn with interest at this time, especially the agricultural review of 1918, which is pleasant reading for the farmer, and the estimates of the world's wheat crops from 1910 to 1916, accord- ing to which more wheat was harvested in 1916 than in 1910 or 1911, while last year's crop was nearly as large as that of 1914.—The" Syren and Shipping" International Mercantile Diary, 1917 (Syren and Shipping, 5s. net) is a new work which gives much useful information about coin- age, weights and measures, foreign exchanges, shipping, and the like for all countries except those with which we are at war. It makes a good start.
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