CURRENT LITERATURE
GUIDE .,TO CURRENT OFFICIAL STATISTICS, 1924. Vol. III. (Stationery Office, Adastral House, 'Xingsway. la. net.) THE existence of this cheap and valuable guide through the dense thicket of official publications deserves to be widely known. The various departments put forth a mass of facts and figures for the information of the public, but few outsiders know precisely where to look for details on any given subject. The guide, which is prepared by. the Permanent Consultative Committee on Official Statistics, makes it easy to find the Blue-book or White Paper containing the particulars desired. It consists of a subject-index with many sub-headings and cross-references, and of a list of publications under depart- ments, with a key-list to link the two together. Thus Prices " has more than a dozen cross-references. One of these is the " Retail Prices," under which the reader is referred, by numbers, to the Ministry of Labour Gazelle, to the Annual Report of that Ministry, and to the. Agricultural Market Report. " Horses," again, has a sub-heading, " Exports," .which refers, to the Home Office and Board of Agriculture reports on the subject. For business men and for all concerned with public affairs this book should be invaluable. It is a scholarly-piece of work and it is unusually Well produced. -
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