PUBLICATION RECEIVED
‘ WHITAKER’S ALAMAN'ACK.’ We have received from the publishers a copy of ‘ Whitaker ’ for 1928. The 60th annual volume is larger than any of its predecessors, and extends to 916 pages, exclusive of the index, while its familiar green cover nears a. largetypo calendar for the convenience of those who use the volupie as a desk or table book. Many additions have been made to the present issue, including statistics relating to building societies, employment and unemployment, British and foreign trade, a list of banks in Northern Ireland and in tho Irish Free State, and other matters of general interest, while questions of the day arc dealt with in short articles, and these are followed by annual summaries of the year’s weather, storms and floods, science and invention, art, music, the drama, wills proved in 19261927, British and Indian railways, and the world’s shipping. ‘ Whitaker ’ contains a jnass of information covering in one form or another almost every department of human activity.
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Evening Star, Issue 19772, 24 January 1928, Page 6
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