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We have received a copy of The Annual Register for

the Year 1914 (Longmans and Co., ISa.). The task of the com- pilers of this most useful book must have been of extreme difficulty in the present instance. It is a hundred years since such an epic has been crowded into its pages. But not only were the events to be recorded of great complexity, but the contemporary reports of them were necessarily incomplete owing to the demands of the Censorship. After all, however, the Annual Register has never professed to be a history of events. It is rather a history of how events have struck those who lived at the time of their occurrence; and the editor is to be congratulated upon the very great success with which he has achieved this aim in the new volume.