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“AN IDEAL HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION ON ALL POINTS OF POLITICS, FINANCES, TRADE, COMMERCE, INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION, MONEY AND CREDIT, RELIGION, JUSTICE, AND CRIME, EDUCATION, MILITARY ORGANIZATION;—THE BOOK OF REFERENCE, IN SHORT, OF THE ENTIRE CIVILIZATION OF EACH COUNTRY.”

—The Independent.

THE STATESMAN’S YEAR BOOK

Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1905.

EDITED BY

J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.

Secretary to the Royal Geographical Society, Honorary Corresponding Member of the Geographical Societies of Paris, Berlin, Munich, Rome, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Buda-Pest, Geneva, Neuchatel, Philadelphia, and of the Commercial Geographical Society of Paris.

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