Abstract
FOR the first time for forty-three years this volume makes its appearance without the name of Sir J. Scott Keltie on the title-page. The joint editor for the last seventeen years now has sole control. The volume is arranged on the plan of past years, which it would be difficult to improve, and, as usual, has been revised in every detail according to the latest returns available: With its fifteen hundred pages it is a marvel of condensation and convenient size. The recent census figures of the Irish Free State, Northern Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, France, and Egypt are included. Improvements have been made in the section on Morocco in order to bring out the distinction between the French, Spanish, and Tangier zones. Additions are also made to the Russian section, particularly in the portion relating to central Asia and the Caucasus. The introductory tables include various statistics of world production, and there is also a section on the League of Nations. The three coloured maps illustrate African railways and political jurisdiction, the Egypt-Cyrenaica boundary, and the boundaries between Nejd, Trans-Jordan, and Iraq. The valuable bibliographies contain the most authoritative works of reference on every State.
The Statesman's Year Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for 1927.
Dr.
M.
Epstein
Edited by. Sixty-fourth Annual Publication. Revised after Official Returns. Pp. xxxviii + 1519. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 20s. net.
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The Statesman's Year Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for 1927 . Nature 119, 889 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119889a0
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