18 APRIL 1908, Page 26

Key to the Ancient Parish Registers of England and Wales.

By Arthur Meredith Burke. (Sackville Press. 102. 6d.)—Mr. Burke explains in his introduction the beginning of the parish registers and various details concerning them. Then follow, by way of specimen, extracts from the register of St. Margaret's, West- minster, one of the best kept and preserved in the kingdom. After this we have an annotated index to all the parishes in England and Wales. The annotation has necessarily to be of the briefest, while the actual condition of the books varies in- definitely. A note indicates where a part has been printed.