29 MAY 1915, Page 23

Booze OF REFEAENCE.—The 1915 edition of that most valuable book

of reference, Crockford'e Clerical Directory (The Field and Queen, Ltd., 26s.), has just reached us. Among the subjects mentioned in the preface to the new issue are Prayer Book revision, and the question whether the clergy are justified in entering the fighting line of our Army. The useful character of the whole volume is too widely appreciated to require any emphasis.—A small Glossary of Archaeology has been compiled by Mr. A. Norman (Talbot and Co., 2 vols., 2s. 6d. net each). The subjects of architecture and eeclesiology are omitted from the scope of tho work, which aims at conciseness and simplicity of treatment.