Debretes Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Oompanionage, 1895. (Dean and Son.)—A
publication which has reached the one hun- dred and eighty-second year of its existence, hardly needs any recommendation. " Debrett " is as complete as ever, and as much up to date. This is no trifling matter, for, as the editor states in his preface, there are "upwards of twelve thousand British subjects bearing either hereditary, personal, or courtesy titles." One portion of " Debrett " must, in particular, require a vast amount of pains and labour before it can be made as complete as it is, and that is the information about " Col- laterals." There is almost a superfluity of trouble taken about this. The collaterals of a Peer's family may be of importance for the succession. This cannot be said of relatives of baronets on the female side. The social value of the information, how- ever, may be held to justify it.— Whitaker's Windsor Peerage. Edited by the Editor of " Dod's Parliamentary Companion." (Whitaker.)—A publication bearing Messrs. Whitakers' imprint comes with a strong recommendation. The Windsor Peerage does not command the amount of space which is available for the mass of information to be found in " Debrett." But it is complete in its way. I Historical Preface gives information about titles, hereditary and other, the Houses of Parliament, &c.
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