Whitaker's Almanac, 1902 (12 Warwick Lane, 2s. 6.1. net), appears
as usual with changes, improvements, and additions, all calculated to keep up its character as the general referee. Of new matter, we may mention the late Census, the Australian Commonwealth, a highly interesting conspectus of municipal taxation and indebtedness, and old-age pensions. The war remains, so to speak, a disturbing element. The D.S.O. list, for instance, has risen from 345 to 1,312.—With this we may mention The "Daily Mail" Year Book, edited by Percy L. Parker (Harmsworth and Co., is.) "20,000 Facts of the Day" is the description of this volume. Among them we may note some interesting details from "Other People's Money." The Marquis of Bute's estate heads the list with £1,864,310. Altogether these over-a-million estates—there were eight of them—paid about £810,000 to the revenue ; of half-a-million and upwards there were eleven ; of £300,000 to £500,000, eighteen ; of £200,000 to 2300,000, twenty-six; of .£150,000 to -£200,(00, thirty-eight; and of over £100,000, seventy-one. Altogether the total comes tia to something like fifty millions. After all, the bulk of the revenue comes from the smaller estates. — Guide to South. Africa, edited by A. Semler Brown and G. Gordon Brown (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.), has reached its ninth year of issue ; a volume that is always interesting, and especially so now in view of the near future.
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