The Clergy Directory, 1907. (J. S. Phillips. 4s. fal.) — The necessary
information about the personnel of the clergy, and the statistics of benefices—population, value, &c.—are given in this volume in as small a compass as possible. The number of the clergy, including the Colonial and missionary priests and deacons (but not those of native origin), may be reckoned at twenty-six thousand, of whom six thousand may be taken as retired or engaged in educational and other work.—Taking the figures given in The Catholic Directory (Burns and Oates, ls. 6d. net), a volume which will be found to contain much information interesting to an outsider, we find that there are in Great Britain four thousand and twenty-four priests, with about half as many churches, chapels, and stations. In England and Wales the dioceses of Westminster and Southwark number about two- sevenths of the whole; Scotland has more than a half of the priests, but less than a third of the churches, &c.—Another well-
known directory, of tried accuracy and usefulness, is The Royal Blue Book Court Giside, now in its eighty-fifth year (Kelly's Directories, 5s. net.)
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