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“THE Statesman's Year-Book” with the present issue reaches its fiftieth year of publication, and by way of signalising this event certain new, features are added which not only are appropriate to it, but also enhance the utility of the work. A number of statistics for the British Empire and for the other principal countries are furnished fo afford comparison between the conditions of years about 1860 and of the present day. There is a semi-tabular retrospect of recent history. Certain comparisons covering the same period also appear under the individual headings of some of the countries. Map-work also plays an important part; there are maps, side by side, of each continent for the years 1863 and 1913; on some of these (e.g. Europe and America) the graphic representation of railway extension is perhaps the most noteworthy feature; from the maps of Africa we have evidence at a glance of the wonderful extension of exploration in the half-century. The year-book always deals exhaustively with the subject of defence, and we now have diagrams illustrating the “growth of displacement, horse-power, and speed of capital battleship types,” and the “varying ratio between weight of heaviest gun, its penetrative power, and the protection afforded to ships,” during the last fifty years.
The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1913.
Dr. J. Scott Keltie; assisted by Dr. M. Epstein. Pp. xcvi + 1452 + 10 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1913.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1913. Nature 91, 396 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091396b0
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