- WORKS OF REFERENCE
Of all the reference books that we know Whitaker's Almanack (6s. and 3s.) is the most compact, comprehensive and accurate, and it-is a pleasure to commend it once again in its sixty-fourth annual issue for 1932. The volume contains the new Parliament elected in November and the new Ministry, and in other respects is, as usual, wonderfully complete and up to date. Another indispensable work of reference is Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companiodaoe, 1932, edited by Arthur G. M. Heselrige (Dean), which is now in its two hundred and nineteenth year and inclUdes all changes and promotions recorded up to the end of November last. To praise Debrett would be to gild the lily. Its old rival, Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1932 (Kelly's Directories), now in its fifty-eighth year, is often used with Debrett, because the titled person's included are given in alphabetical 'order instead of under their families, and are thus very easily found. It has . been thoroughly revised to the end of last November. With " Kelly "- we naturally have the Royal Blue Book, Court and Parliamentary Guide, 1932 (Kelly's Directories, 7s. 6d.), which is a select directory, with official lists, theatre plans and other useful matter. A new annual work of reference that is to be wet- comed is the Peace Year Book, 1932 (Natioaal Peace Council, ls. 6d.), which gives instructive chapters on the events of the past year and the preliminaries of the coming Disarmament Conference and details of the organization of the peaae societies at home and abroad.
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