Woaas OF REFERENCE.—Burke's Peerage fur 1921, edited by
A. Winton Thorpe (Burke Publishing Co., f6 6s. net), is the eightieth edition of this familiar and venerable work, which is the most complete of its kind. It has been revised with care. We notice that the death of Lord Bessborough, a very few days ago, is recorded in the preface, though not, of course, in the body of the work. Eighty-one new peers, 160 new baronets, and 1,800 new knights are mentioned in this edition, as well as 30,000 names in the various orders. It may be remarked that, for convenience of reference, the names in the Order of the British Empire should be arranged alphabetically and not according to precedence ; as it is, to discover whether any person was a C.B.E. or O.B.E. would take a long time. " Burke " now oontains 3,300 pages ; it is a wonderful compilation and is very well printed.—The Girls' School Year Book (Public Schools) (H. F. W. Deane, 7s. 6d. net), the official reference-book of the Association of Head Mistresses, has reached its fifteenth year. It is trustworthy, and may be commended to the anxious Parents who are seeking schools with vacant places and are having much trouble in finding them. The second part of the book deals in a practical fashion with professions and employ- ments for young women.—Sell's World's Press, edited by B. T. Brown (Sella, Ltd.), appears in its thirty-sixth edition. It is an excellent classified list of British and foreign Periodicals, and the articles in the opening section are well worth reading, especially Lord Northcliffe's account of " Some of the Functions of a Newspaper," and Mr. Robert Donald's somewhat pess:mistio survey of " New Forces in Journalism "— th5 newspaper trusts on the one side and the journalists' trade union, affiliated to the printers' organization, on the other. The reproductions of the type-written and phctographen bulletins issued by the Manchester Guardian and Lirerpcol Echo during the compositors' strike last September are interesting ouriosities.—The Churchman'e Year Book, 1921 (Mowbray, 3s. 6d. net), which consists partly of biographies and partly of general information arranged in encyclopaedic form, is commend- ably prompt in appearing for the thirteenth year in succession. Canon Temple's appointment to Manchester canto just too late to be included, but the details of earlier occurrences are accurat and include a summary of the National Assembly's Novembo session.
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