6 JUNE 1914, Page 27

The South African Year-Book, 1914. By W. H. Hosking. (G.

Routledge and Sons. 10s. net.)—South Africa has hitherto had no year-book devoted to it, and Mr. Reeking tells no that, as a working journalist, he has often felt the need of such a collation of information about the Union as he here undertakes to supply. It is perhaps inevitable that there should be certain omissions and imperfections in the first issue of such a work. But Mr. Hosking has had the advantage of help from the staff of the High Commissioner in London and from numerous official sources in South Africa, and has produced what seems, so far as we can test it, to be a trustworthy, and will certainly be a useful, compilation.