Abstract
THIS valuable year-book has again undergone a thorough revision and incorporates the latest official statistics up to the time of going to press. The lists of books of reference have also been revised. Notable events have occurred in many States during the year, such as the establishment of a central government with new capital in China, the transformation of Albania from a republic to a monarchy, and the restoration of the temporal sovereignty of the Pope. These and other events are duly noted, but the list of separate States now remains the same, and there have been few territorial readjustments during the year. The introductory tables include several of world production of selected commodities. In one respect the value of the book could be enhanced: that is, by the inclusion year by year of more tables of this kind. There is the usual section on the League of Nations. The coloured maps show the City of the Vatican (on a large scale) and the Peru-Colombia boundary adjustment. The size of the book has been slightly reduced, mainly by the condensation of the index, which does not, however, impair its value.
The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1929.
Dr.
M.
Epstein
Edited by. Sixtysixth Annual Publication. Bevised after Official Returns. Pp. xxxii + 1448. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1929.) 20s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 123, 867 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123867b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/123867b0