Berke, Peerage and Baronetage. By the late Sir Bernard Burke
and Ashworth P. Ruske. (Harrison and Sons. 42s.)—This, the seventy-second edition, shows an increase of more than a score of its large and closely printed pages. The natural growth of population contributes ; decorations are given more widely,— even a Radical Government increases the ranks of the nobles whom it denounces. All these things are duly recorded in these familiar pages, these and a miscellaneous variety which cannot be enumerated. And everything, as far as we can observe, is given with accuracy and promptitude.—Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 10a. 6d. net), is junior to Burke by two years only. It is a personal record of distinction by birth or promotion, all persona bearing real or courtesy titles being included.—Kell; fs Handbook of the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes (Kelly's Directories, 15s.) takes in, it will be observed, two other classes, land- owners and official persons, with, consequently, a larger number of names. A hasty calculation makes these to amount to something between twenty and thirty thousand.— The Royal Blue Book (same publishers, 5s. net) has a two- fold arrangement of information. It contains one directory of names and another of streets in the region which may be briefly described as " West End." It has also a large official section, including lists of banks, insurance companies, ko. An excellent map of the region dealt with appears again.—Finally, we have to mention The Clergy Directory (J. S. Phillips, 4s. 61), with its alphabetical lists of clergy and benefices. The Irish and Scottish (Episcopal) Churches are included;; as are the Colonial establishments. There is, we observe, a special list of the dignitaries of these branches of the Anglican Communion. This is a handy volume, giving a large equivalent for its price.
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