“This should be a most valuable book to tourists abroad. The information given is well arranged and clearly put.”—Academy.
“If you want to know anything about anybody, get a copy of
‘Who’s Who.’”—“Truth.”
AN ANNUAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
Price 3s. 6d. net.
WHO’S WHO
EDITED BY DOUGLAS SLADEN
Contains nearly 8000 Biographies—Mostly Autobiographies—of
the Leading Men and Women of the Day
Excerpt from The Times’ Notice of 25th March 1897
In spite of the number and variety of the works of reference published annually nowadays, there is always room for a new one if it really fills a place hitherto vacant, and brings together useful information in a handy and acceptable form. Judged by such a test, the new issue of “Who’s Who,” of which the first yearly volume has just appeared under the editorship of Mr. Douglas Sladen, ought certainly to count upon a warm welcome. This work has up to the present, since its birth in 1848, “that year of strife and kingdoms over-set,” been content to serve as a hand-book to the titled and official classes only. Its aim is now “to include all the most prominent people in the kingdom, whether their prominence is inherited, or depending upon office, or the result of ability which singles them out from their fellows in occupations open to every educated man and woman.” The field of its operations is thus very wide, and it is greatly to the credit of Mr. Sladen that it has been covered so well already.