5 MARCH 1864, Page 22

What is your Name? By Sophy Moody. (Richard Bentley.)—This book

is unfortunate in appearing just after Miss Yonge's "History of Christian Names ;" but the very interesting and curious subject with which it deals is very inadequately handled. Miss Moody has collected an immense amount of valuable information and of idle stories, and these she has strung together without system or even index. And her style, though easy and flowing, aims most painfully at fine writing. The classified lists of names at the end of the volume are the most valuable part of it.