New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-30
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
CURRENT REFERENCE BOOKS.

THE GOVERNMENT YEAR BOOK. Record OF the
Forms and Methods OF Government IN 0res, bI,
ain Her Colonies and Foreign Countries Edtcd
by LEWIS SERGEANT. evo PIP. 90. Ne"'io'A'
White a. Allen London: T. FISHER Oh"ih
THE srATEsMAN's YEAR BooK. Edited by J.
SCOTT kettle evo, PIP sso LONDON anu Now
York Macmillan Co.
INDEX TO THE NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE FOR
1887 Complied by JOHN L. WElNHEIMEk. lono'
DID, I02. fTho Tribune Association, New'fofh
No well-equipped library or newspaper Office can
Afford to DO without these three works of reference
sThe Government Y,,ar Book Is the most comprc-
hensiye manual OF political annals that has ever been
published. whle special prominence Is gl'en 10
Great Britain and its dependencies, no country is neg
lected. 1t aims TO furnish compact account @oi
the forms and methods OF government In various
quarters of the world and TO review the political and
constitutional history OF the year 1857. No other
work which has ever fallen under our eyes has SO
complete and accurate q collection OF the bases OF
political and constitutional history through
out the world. The Information has been supplied In
the main by British Legations abroad. and 1t has been
edited revised and indexed by most competent au-
thority. Tho chapter relating to the United States
Is full and accurate. the Constitution and political
system being explained to Englishmsn with such
intelligence and panstanng care as TO convince I'M
partial Americans that Mr.. Phelps's recent essays IN
@Thc Nineteenth Century" were superfuous Ger
tainly, with this volume IN general circulation In
England,
without q running commentary on the Constitution
by the United States Minister Tho volume is hand
somcly printed and well bound and will DO useful
every day in the year TO students OF the words poh-
tics, and especially TO journalists
aThe statesman's Year-D Book with its familiar red
covers has reached the dignity of twenty-hfth
annual publication Unlike the preceding work, 1t does
not contain formal review Of political and interna-
tonal events Of 1857, but II comprises the essential
facts the government OF every civilized country with
statistics OF trade population, national revenues and
expenditures, and military and naval intelligence OF
great value. This publication is always carefully
edited and its information is invariably based upon
Official returns from the capitals Of the world 1t be-
comes an able work Of reference wherever
is once ntelligently used.
The Index" 10 the daily files Of The Tribune for
1887 brings 365 issues of American newspaper
within reaching distance for convenient reference
Every article topic and fragment of represented
In these pages by reference line that can readily be
found In the general alphabetical and special topical ar
rangements Tho news Of tho year without the ad-
ventitious aid Of such device as this
can only be recalled after arduous searching of the
files and straining of the eyes. The q Index has a
place for everything and puts everything in its place
Similar classes of information are grouped for the pur-
pose Of convenient reference and glance reveals the
date OF issue and tho page and column who're what Is
wanted may be found Hero is the authentic record
of all the accidents and shipwrecks, the defacation
and crimes, the murders and suicides, failures, fires
and floods which were recorded during the twelve
month in a metropolitan journal Here are lists of
all the books that have boon reviewed, all the plays
that have been criticised all the sermons that havo
been reported and all the law that have boon
corded from day to day. The neurology Of the year
6s column after column In alphabetical order Educa
ton schools, science, art and music have each It's ap
pointed place Agriculture, insurance, commerce. bank
ing, finance and railroads have orderly arrangement
of titles. Legislation and general politics require tho
came treatment enlarged scale. Foreign affairs
bro arranged under the heads Of various countries sport
Ing deliberately ndexed In this the news Of
the year in order very much good library is
arranged with shelves for particular classes Of books
and at tho time the alphabetical classification IS
retained for the convenience Of those who do not eadly
accommodate their minds to the method Of grouping
The index reveals the contents of 365 daily Issues OF
metropolitan journal containing the OF the world
and since much that is In one is also to be found in all
newspapers Of the corresponding date it also in
open the cs Of the daily press 1t ought,
therefore, to be in every public library and newspaper
Office
Tho compilation of this Index" is most laborious
task involving the classification and arrangement Of
thousands upon thousands Of cards with reference lines
Few daily journals attempt the work of indcxng their
files, The Tribune being the only in the United
States that publishes work Of this kind. As preface
to tho volume review of the political history of the
year is published, and the Index Is thus made COM
plete work Of reference to the annals Of the time.