We have received The Clergy Directory (J. S. Phillips, 4s.
64.) This publication has now reached its thirty-first year, and appeals at a conveniently early date. As far as we have been able to check the information supplied by personal knowledge, we have found it up-to-date. The difficulty is in the matter of resigna- tions. It might be well that these should be recorded in the same way as are appointments. No clerk can resign a benefice but by the Bishop's permission and by the execution of a personal deed. Why should not these be notified? We see a case in which a benefice resigned some months since has the same name still given as incumbent.—Another directory, but of much greater antiquity, is The Royal Blue-book (Kelly's I)irectories Company, 5s.) This is the seventy-ninth issue, or, it would be more correct to say, the one hundred and fifty-eighth, it being the practice to issue a second edition somewhat later in the year. The volume contains an official, a street, and an alpha- betical directory. This last contains between fifteen and twenty thousand names. "Better-class private residents" is the defini- tion of the preface ; but this is not pedantically adhered to, as professional addresses often are given, much, of course, to the general convenience.—Another veteran among periodical volumes is Lodge's Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (Hurst and Blackett, 31s. 6d.), now in its seventieth year, and too well known to need any special commendation.
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