16 MARCH 1918, Page 17

WORKS OF REFEREXCE —Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed, and

Official Classes for 1918 (Kelly's Directories, 15s.) is the forty- fourth annual edition of a most useful book, which contains condensed biographies of thirty thousand persons, and yet is convenient to handle and easy to read.—The Guide to South and East Africa, edited by A. S. Brown and G. G. Brown for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company (Sampson Low, ls. not), has now reached its twenty-fourth edition, and is still the best book of its kind dealing with South and East Africa from the standpoints of the traveller, sportsman, and settler. The new edition contains much fresh information about the Belgian Congo and East Africa, and the coloured maps are clear and well printed.