Man sagt oft: Zahlen regieren die Welt. Das aber ist gewiss, Zahlen zeigen wie sie regiert wird. PRINTED BY SFOTTIS WOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON GOETHE. PREFACE. In this new issue of the YEAR-BOOK will be found many additions and alterations, which, it is hoped, will be considered improvements. Every effort has been made to bring the statistical and other information up to the latest available date. Again the editor has to express his warmest acknowledgments for the ample assistance he has received from officials and others all over the world; such co-operation is indispensable to the continued efficiency of a work which, it is believed, is of some public service. 'STATESMAN'S YEAR-BOOK' OFFICE, 29 & 30 Bedford Street, StraND, LONDON, W.C. January 30, 1888. J. S. K. |