THE -INTERNATIONAL - WHO'S - - WHO Who_. (witligaut...Alisrespeat)—is.-Dx,.,..Zygmunt. What are the
details of the public career of Sir Padamji Pcstonji • Ginwala ? How old is Dr. Ernst Jfiekh ? Where was Baron Aloisi educated ? What is the address of Herr Hans Fallada ? This is the type of question to which, without a copious library of foreign reference-books to hand, it has always been difficult to find an answer without trouble and ,delay, and in providing a means for doing so with the minifhum of either The International Who's Who (Europa Publications, 63s.) may claim to add itself to that select company of reference works which are dignified with the epithet `indispensable: It contains approximately 25,000 skeleton biographies of the best-known people throughout the world, with details of their subjects' dates of birth; places of education, careers, publica- tions, and present addresses. It is, no doubt, the length of time necessary for the preparation of such a volume that is responsible for it being, in a fairly large number of particulars, not up to date. Some of the persons included are no longer alive, many others—particularly among the diplomats and politicians—now hold different offices or appointments, and the records of many of the Writers' publications are considerably behind the times.. Rut „these. details, though unfortunate, do not substantially diminish the value of an undoubtedly useful volume.
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