19 JANUARY 1907, Page 23

The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal : the Duchess

of Exeter Volume. By the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 84s. net.)—Previous volumes have given us the descendants of Edward IV. and of George Duke of Clarence. We have here the descendants of Anne Plantagenet, mother of an only daughter, Anne, who became the wife of Thomas Manners, Lord Roos. She had two sons and five daughters, and the descendants of these seven occupy one hundred pages, four- columned and closely printed. The total number of the Plantagenet descendants is not less than sixty thousand, and probably many remain untraced. Such descents as could be followed have been worked out in the most painstaking way.