Statesman's Year-Book. Edited by J. Scott Keltie. (Macmillan.) —This manual,
now in its thirtieth year of publication, shows increased usefulness and adaptation to the needs of those who use it as a book of reference. We observe that the increase of savings- bank capital during the years 1887-91 was in Ireland at the rate of 16 per cent., in England at the rate of 12 per cent. We have never seen any explanation of this that harmonises with the loud com- plaints as to Irish poverty.—We have also received The Official Year-Book of the Church of England, 1893. (S.P.C.K.)—In the nineteen years, 1873-1891, more than twenty millions have been spent on church building, restoration, &c. ; in the thirty-five years before (but including 1873-1874), the sum was more than twenty-five millions. The expenditure is very large, and has greatly increased. In the first period the annual average was, in round numbers, £700,000; in the second, £1,080,000; while in 1891 the sum was £1,468,135. This is not a mark cadentis The Medical Annual, 1893. (John Wright and Co., Bristol.)—The Directory of Contractors and Public Works Annual. Edited and compiled by William Biggar. (Effingham Wilson.)—Rochester Diocesan Directory. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—London University Guide and University Correspondence College Calendar. (W. B. Clive and Co.)—The Counting House. Vol I. (Raithby, Lawrence, and Co.)
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