22 DECEMBER 1923, Page 20

The Daily Mail Year Book is, as usual, full of

interesting and useful information of every sort and kind. It is the best of ephemeral encyclopaedias. The lightning biographies of a thousand notable people are very good, but here we may make a suggestion, though rather a cruel one. It is that a notable saying of not more than three lines should be added to each of the biographies. It is well to sample a man by his words, and as it were let him living write his own epitaph. A very interesting article is "Changing London." As the Scottish laird said about trees —" They are growing while we sleep "—London is changing not only while we are sleeping, but while we are walking its streets. How far these changes have gone of late are well shown in Mr. Leask's article.