Who's Who grows yearly in bulk, and in consequence obviously
in value. That stands to reason, for there is greater bulk because' there are more entries, and the more entries there are the more useful the volume will be to those who haite occasion to consult it. The 1953 volume, which has just reached me, contains 3,274 pages against its pre- decessor's 3,198. It also costs £5 now. To discover who has gone out (only by death or conviction for felony, for once in Who's Who you are there for life—on good behaviour) and who has made an entrance would involve an effort of collation of which I am incapable. But I tried one test name, Tito, which was not in the 1952 volume. Here he is in 1953—between Professor Titmuss and Commendatore Titta. There was not quite time to get his election to the Presidency in, and it is disappointing to find that he apparently has no recreation. Next year, no doubt, it will be " Travel in England." (How hard some of the eminent canonised here must work to invent recreations for purposes of the record.) It would not be fair to ask too much of Messrs. A. & C. Black, the publishers of this fascinating and indispensable annual, but a selection of the applications for admission to Who's Who, with the appli- cants' reasons for considering themselves to merit that distinc- tion, would sell like an American comic. It would be easy, I fancy, to fill a volume as corpulent as Who's Who itself. The title might be " More Rejected Addresses."
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