WORKS OF REFERENCE.—Willing's Press Guide, 1922 (James Willing, 2s. 6d.),
is the forty-ninth issue of this compact and useful book, which gives first an alphabetical list of journals, then a classified list, and finally a newspaper gazetteer.— The Swedish Year Book, 1921, edited by. Mr. H. Eneborg, who directs the Swedish Board of Trade Journal (Williams and Norgate, 7a. 6d. net), is the first issue of a work that is intended to benefit Swedish trade. It touches briefly on the language, history and constitution of Sweden, and then describes her resources and industries. The book is well written and contains a great deal of trustworthy information, but it suffers from lack of an index and the small map of Sweden is inadequate. —The People's Year Book, 1922 (Co-operative Wholesale Society, 2s. 6d. net), now in its fifth year, is compiled in the joint interests of the co-operative movement and the Labour Party, so that,. unlike the ordinary year books, it is biased and must be used with caution. The account of the miners' strike, for example, is noteworthy for its omissions and for an attempt to minimize the damage done to the pits by the calling out of the pump-men. The book contains much information that is not easily found elsewhere, but its accuracy is never above suspicion. The .Royal Blue-Book (Kelly's Directories, 10s. 6d. net) has appeared, as punctually as ever, in its January edition, which has been carefully revised. The lists of the Household, the Ministers and the principal Government officials in the opening pages are commendably full and accurate.
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