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Reference Books For 1934 Whitaker's Almanack (6s. and 3s.) is at once the most compact and the most comprehensive of reference books, and the .present volume, the 66th annual edition, is even wider in scope than its predecessors. Additional spice has been given to a number of subjects, and there are innovations under several headings. In every respect this volume is, as usual, up to date and reliable. It is a pleasure once more to recom- mend it. The Daily Mail Year Book (AssoCiated Newsspa' pers, ls.) is planned on a smaller scale, but on rather similar lines, and provides, for its size and price, an amazingly varied and useful amount of information. Kelly's Handbdok to the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes (Kelly's Directories, 30s.) includes, in addition to members of the classes listed in its title, many eminent persons in the literary, artistic, and commercial worlds. This year's volume, the 60th edition, contains a new section devoted to Hunting, which provides full details of every hunt in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, the Privy Council and Knightage (Burke's Peerage, £5 5s.) and Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage (Dean, 75s.) are in their 92nd and 221st years respectively. Both are now institutions, as well as invaluable works of reference, and both are as usual beautifully produced. To praise either of them is superfluous. The Royal Blue Book, Court and Parliamentary Guide (Kelly's Directories, 7s. 6d.) provides a select directory of the better-class residential areas, together with a considerable amount of useful informa- tion, official and general.
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