19 JANUARY 1918, Page 17

WORKS OF REFERENCE.—The New Mizell Annual for 1918, edited by

T. A. Ingram (H. Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, 5s. net), has swelled to 920 pages, and includes a very full and good summary of the war in its various aspects, with maps and tables. The list of Commissions and Committees dealing with war matters fills ten columns of small type, and gives food for thought.. In other respects Hazen is as encyclopaedic and trustworthy as over. --Dods Peerage for 1918 (Simpkin tan Marshall, 15s. not) is now in its seventy-eighth year. Its compactness and general accuracy are once more to lie commended. The plan of including all titled persons in a single alphabetical list has its advantages for ready reference.