The Government Hand - Book. Edited by Lewis Sergeant. (T Fisher Unwin.)—This
volume contains, we are told, "all that was permanent in the text of The Government Year-BOok.' " It has been brought up to date by the mention of any changes that have taken place since the publication of this work two years ago. The editor adds a review of the political situation. What he, says about Home-rule is temperate in tone ; the necessity of com- promise is the upshot of it. We should, perhaps, explain to readers that the title '° Government Hand-book " does not mean an account of the various executive departments in the British Empire, but a description of the various governments of the world. Hereafter we are not to have an annnal publication, but a now edition when circumstances seem to render it expedient. —Debrett's Peerage (Dean and Son) can claim to be in its 178th year of publication. It is, we may remind our readers, a " Baronetage, Knightage, and 'Companionage "; in fact, a comprehensive hand-book of dignities. The collateral branches of ennobled families are given with con- siderable fulness.—A far younger compeer :of "Debrett's," which has nevertheless attained a respectable age, for it is in its ." fifty-first year," is Dodd's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland (Whittaker and Co.). This is a much :smaller volume, and does not profess to give the genealogical information found in "Debrett's," but it is complete in its way.
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