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A BOOK such as this falls, usually, into one of two classes. It can be an indispensable (if tiresome) list of names to which are attached groups of more or less intelligible statistics, a somewhat dull reiteration of policy, an urbane or challenging record of things accomplished, some indigestible lumps of ‘ useful information,’ and a dissertation which veils but thinly the propagandist hand. In this case it goes so swiftly to the reference shelf that, almost in the same breath, we bid it welcome and farewell. Alternatively, it may present all the names, statistics, records, and useful information, and still retain the subtle quality of the dictionary. We take it up to seek some special point of interest and find ourselves absorbed delightfully by old things which appear in new light, and by new things which stimulate and surprise.
The Yearbook of the Universities of the Empire, 1927.
Edited by Walter H. Dawson. Published for the Universities Bureau of the British Empire. Pp. xii + 858. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1927.) 7s. 6d. net.
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The Yearbook of the Universities of the Empire, 1927 . Nature 119, 888 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119888a0
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