Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 1892. (Dean and Sons.)—This work
has now reached its "one hundred and seventy- ninth year of publication." It is divided into two nearly equal parts, each extending to between eight and nine hundred pages. The first contains the " Peerage," together with supplementary lists of titles of courtesy, of extinct or dormant peerages (such, i.e., as have become so during this present century), of Bishops suffragan, Irish, and Scotch, the Colonial nobility (i.e., of Malta), foreign titles of nobility borne by British subjects, the Privy Council, and the Judicial Bench. The second part contains the " Baronetage and Knightage," with further lists of Knights' widows, and of Companions of the various Orders. It can easily be imagined that the collection and correction of the vast amount of material included in the two parts, as above described, imply great labour and expense. The publishers do their best to obtain the correc- tions from the persons concerned, an excellent plan, but involving a very great amount of correspondence. We may notice how, in the portion devoted to the hereditary dignities, a great deal of information has been compressed without sacrifice of lucidity into a small space. An excellent instance may be seen on p. 697 (Part I.)
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