5 JANUARY 1924, Page 30

DEBRETT'S PEERAGE, BARONETAGE, KNIGHTAGE

AND COMPANIONAGE, 1924. (Dean and Son. 75s. net.)

Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, 1924, which attains something of a record with 3,300 pages, seems to have been revised with the usual care. In the preface, which makes instructive reading, the editor remarks on the restoration of the historic post of Keeper of the Castle of Stirling. The King has once again vested the office in the Erskine family after a lapse of more than two hundred years. It is interesting to note, too, that in three of the recent Royal weddings, both husbands and wives have the same Plantagenet ancestor in Richard, Duke of York (the Protector).