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WORKS OF REFERENCE.:--PoOk-PriCe8 Current for 1918-19 (Elliot Stock, 32s. 6d.

net) is the thirty-third volume of an invaluable series. The alphabetical arrangement is convenient for reference. Mr. J. H. Slater as usual prefixes a brief note on the tendency of thig book-market, in which exceptional books are now fetching fabulous prices, while books "of the more useful and in a wider sense more scholarly kind" are "cheap enough and are likely to remain so."—The Royal Blue Book for January, 1920 (Kelly's Directories, 7s. 6d. net) is the hundred and ninety- sixth issue of this well-known directory of the West End. The New Year's Honours List has been incorporated in the official section.