The Book of Family Crces. These. two volumes contain about
four thousand engravings of crests, which illustrate that crowning heraldic emblem in a hundred thousand families in Great Britain, Ireland, the United States, and the Colonies. The first volume contains a dictionary of the family names, with a minute descrip- tion of the crest, and a reference to the plates of the second vo- lume, which displays the generie character of the emblem whence all the variations have originated. To those who take an interest in genealogy, it is superfluous to recommend such a publication ; but many others will derive from it much amusement, in tracing out the crests of their fliends, and seeing or suspecting how some ugly or commonplace insignia has been quietly dropped for one of more chivalrous bearing, when similarity of names favoured the achievement.
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