Co. 10s. 6d.)—This volume (the thirty-eighth annual publica- tion) contains
the results of the last Census both at home and in India. Several Censuses of foreign countries have also taken place. Other changes and additions there are—the beginning of the Australian Commonwealth, for instance—which combine to make up a total of considerable importance. Generally the new figures that concern social and economical matters are satis- factory. The total of paupers in England and Wales has diminished since 1896 by about thirty thousand, a number which, however, looks less imposing when it is represented by the per- centage .36. In the "British Empire" the "Orange River Colony" and the "Transvaal Colony" figure for the first time for many years. Altogether Part I. (the British Empire) fills 355 pages. Part II. (Abyssinia—Venezuela) runs to 897. It is needless to commend The Statesman's Year-Book to our readers. Its place in the reference library is well established.
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