Womcs or REFERENCE.—Kelly'8 Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official
Classes for 1922 (Kelly's Directories, 30s. net) is the forty-eighth edition of a most accurate and convenient work. The alphabetical arrangement saves much time and trouble when one is hurriedly looking for some titled person who belongs to a large family. The " leading members of the mercantile community " are being gradually added to the list. The book contains over 1,850 pages and is remarkably well printed.—Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Coin- panionage, 1922, edited by Arthur G. M. Hesilrige (Dean, 85s. net), has been revised with care and scorns to be as accurate and comprehensive as ever. The preface is well worth reading. The editor points out that Mr. Lloyd George as Prime Minister has in five years beaten even Mr. Asquith's record for creating peers, although of course the Coalition creations include War honours. Many more claims for the revival of ancient baronies and earldoms have, it seems, been put forward. The death of a clerical K.C.V.O. inspires the editor to point out that an ecclesiastic does not receive the accolade, and does not therefore take the title of Sir " ; the wife is not styled " Lady " unless she has a special warrant, but she has the precedence customary to the wife of a K.C.V.O. —The Churchman's Year Book, 1922 (Mowbray, 3s. 6d. net), consists of a clerical " Who's Who " and of general informa- tion given under heads in alphabetical order. It is a most useful book, containing much detail that is not easily found elsewhere about Church matters. The article on " Division of Dioceses," for instance, is a good summary of the salient facts.—That curious and familiar book, the Almanach Hachette, 1922 (Hachette, 3 francs 50 c.), is as wonderful as ever. French people like their reference-books to be amusing, and their wants are well supplied in this medley of articles and pictures—" a little popular encyclopaedia of prac- tical affairs " which is as unlike " Whitaker " as anything could well be. The page of pictures of French fishing-boats is one among many pieces of information that will be found novel.
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