We have received the annual volume of Burke's Peerage and
Barottetage (Harrison and Sons, 42s.) We can only say of it as we have said so many times before, that it as good as ever, and that it has been brought up to date with the most exemplary minuteness. The present number is described as the sixty-fourth edition.—At the same time we may note Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Enightage, and Companionage (Dean and Son, 31s. 6d.), the doyen, we suppose, of its class, as it has reached its hundred and eighty-ninth year, a most venerable age, not, however, incon- sistent with the activity of youth in keeping up to the time. — The Royal Blue Book (Kelly's Directories, 5s.) is a youngster of eighty, but as it comes out twice a year—this is the January issue—is not far off in the number of editions from its older rival. —The Clergy Directory (J. S. Phillips, 4e. 6d.) is certainly a cheap volume, though it does not contain all the information—the past cures, e.g., held by the clergy, or the clerical staff of benefices where there are assistant-curates or lecturers—that is given in some volumes of the kind.
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