Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom. (Chatto and Windus.
50s.)—This directory appears for the forty-third time. There is, we take it, no publication of the kind which requires such careful editing. The class with which it deals is vague and fluctuating, not distinguished for the most part by any special mark, and very difficult to define. All the more credit, therefore, is due to the good sense with which, on the whole, the under- taking is conducted. A "county family" is even more difficult to define than a public school. Why, we might ask, is a very eminent professional man who has no pied-b-terre outside London included ? Why should not a son, occupying the same domain and following the same occupation as his father, be accorded the same place ? Yet this volume does supply, as a matter of fact, the information that is wanted.—Another periodical volume that may be mentioned is Dod's Parliamentary Companion (Whitaker and Co., 4e. ad.) The Companion. is 'now in its seventy-ninth issue. "Arthur Lynch" appears as Member for Galway, marked with an asterisk, a symbol which, however, denotes only that he did not sit in the last Parliament. We have more than once noticed this volume. It will suffice to say that it is a most convenient little book.
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