20 JANUARY 1912, Page 25

The Catholic Directory (Burns and Oates, la (3d. net) appears

for the seventy-fifth time, thus dating back to a little after Emancipation. It gives information, ecclesiastical and civil, about the Roman Catholic Communion. The peers number 44, baronets 51. knights 00, members of Parliament 85 (10 sitting for English constituencies).—The Clergy Directory (J. S. Phillips, 4s. Gd. net) contains an alphabetical list of the clergy, list of benefices, and a statement of cathedral establishments with other information.— The Scottish Church and University Almanac (MacNivon and Watson, Edinburgh, ls. net.)—The Free Church of Scotland (as distinguished from the United Free Church) has, we see, 81 ministers, of whom 24 are in Edinburgh and Glasgow and 57 in the Highlands and Islands, the United Original Seceders 20, and the Reformed Presbyterians 8.—Royal Blue Book (Kelly's Directories, 5s. not.)—This volume is illustrated by a map of the "Western Districts of London," described as " prepared expt

It is cut off a little too much to the East, for it does not give places included in the " Streets Directory," as the Temple, Lincoln's Inn, Bedford Row, and the legal region generally.