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Who Was Who. (A. and C. Black. 21s. net.)—This book

fills the gap between the standard biographical dictionaries and the current Who's Who. It contains the notices, reprinted from former volumes of Who's Who, of those more or less well-known persons who died between 1897 and 1916, with the dates of their deaths. It runs to nearly eight hundred pages of small type. As a work of reference it will be found exceedingly useful, all the more because many of the persons named will never figure in the Dictionary of National Biography, if, as we hope, that great work should be continued.