Thotn's Official Directory, 1897. (Alex. Thom and Co., Dublin ;
Simpkin and Marshall.)—It will be sufficient to record the annual appearance of this volume, now in its fifty-fourth year. It is a book of reference of much general utility, and in respect of the Irish information which it gives, unique and indispensable. We observe in the highly interesting figures of Dublin rating that are here given, that Trinity College is rated at .£6,200, and the Bank of Ireland at £3,800; the Hibernian Bank figures for £2,000, and the Provincial Bank of Ireland for £900; and all the houses in Merrion Square at £10,435; as there are ninety-five houses, this gives an average of about .£110. We imagine that if Irishmen are more heavily taxed, they are less heavily rated.
Messrs. Chatto and Windus have sent us their useful little volumes bearing the titles of Walford's Shilling Peerage, Shilling Baronetage, Shilling Knightage, and Shilling House of Commons, all of them edited by "a Graduate of the University of London ; " and all of them having reached the forty-third year of publica- tion.—Another well-known annual volume is Dod's Parlia- mentary Companion (Whittaker and Co.) This has on its title-page "Sixty-fifth Year." It contains brief biographical notices of the Members of both Houses ; an account which has had the advantage of having been superintended by Sir Reginald F. D. Palgrave, of "Parliamentary Terms and Proceedings ; " figures of the last Election, with those of any by-elections that have since taken place ; and an appendix with various details of information.—With these we may mention Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench (Dean and Son). This volume also gives electoral facts, a list of Peers and Peeresses, and, in its Judicial department, besides Judges of the High Court, those who preside over County Courts, Recorders, Colonial Judges, ecc.
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