(1) Athena: A Yearbook of the Learned World The English-speaking Races (2) The Yearbook of the Universities of the Empire, 1918–1920

Abstract

(1) SIMULTANEOUSLY with the publication of the first volume of “Athena,” “Minerva: Jahrbuch der gelehrten Welt” has made its reappearance after the war. It is described as the twenty-fourth yearly issue, 1920, the previous edition being for the year 1913–14. “Athena” is a stately volume (8½ in. by 5½in.) of 392 pages. “Minerva,” of just half the cubic capacity, contains 1148 (plus 118) pages. “Athena's” learned world is restricted to the English-speaking races. “Minerva” takes cognisance of all civilised peoples; although, as was inevitable, the editor has but little information to give regarding the universities and other institutions of higher learning of the countries with which, until recently, Germany was at war. Italy is an exception. The personnel and other particulars of the Italian universities and learned societies are given as fully as in pre-war editions. Of the great majority of British and American institutions the permanent features alone are set forth in a few lines. The editor is careful to state that figures, e.g. the number of books in a library, relate to the year 1914. In the rare instances in which a calendar of a British or a catalogue of an American university has been obtained, the names and offices of the members of the staff are set forth; but a study of the list will, usually, reveal its date.

(1) Athena: A Yearbook of the Learned World. The English-speaking Races.

Edited by C. A. Ealand. Pp. viii + 392. (London: A. and C. Black, Ltd., 1920.) Price 15s. net.

(2) The Yearbook of the Universities of the Empire, 1918–1920.

Edited by W. H. Dawson. (Published for the Universities Bureau of the British Empire.) Pp. xiv + 503. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1920.) Price 15s. net.