Burke's Peerage, Knightage, and Baronetage. Edited by Ash- worth P.
Burke. (Harrison and Sons. 42s.)-The editor shows a most praiseworthy desire to make this book as complete and as accurate as possible. He gives some interesting particulars, suggested by the beginning of a new century, on the personnel of the House of Lords. We have the Roll of the Lords Temporal in the Parliament of 1801, the first of the United Kingdom. The difference between this and the Roll now in force may be thus exhibited
These numbers are approximate, for the double returns and merged peerages require more reckoning than we have time for (no account is taken of representative Peers). It is curious that the first House of Lords contained 49 lay and 90 spiritual Peers. An explanation, certainly needed, is given of the " Guide to Relative Precedence." When one sees that the Archbishop of Canterbury is numbered 993, one would think that there are 992 persons who have precedence of him. As a matter of fact there are not more than five ; 993-999 include certain high officials ; Dukes are n^rnbered 1,C00, Marquesses 2,000, and so on. We must own to be....g a little doubtful as to some details. The Duke of Norfolk is numbered, being premier Duke, 1,000c; the Marquess of Winchester, being premier Marquess, 2,001. Is 2,000 reserved for the Platonic iUa of a Marquess F-Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., 10s. 6d.), while on a much smaller scale, is a very useful work, which, now that it is in its sixty-first year, it is needless more particularly to commend.-Even less wanting of introduc- tion to the public is Whittaker's Almanac for 1901 (12 Warwick Lane, 2s. 6d.) The editor does not rest on his reputation, but is always adding and improving. Matters of interest relating to the South African War may be found in the appendix. About five hundred officers have been killed, of whom the Lieutenants and Second Lieutenants make up together nearly one-half. Three general officers have been killed.-Herbert Fry's Royal Guide to the London Charities (Chatto and Windus, ls. 6d.)
1901. Extinct. 1901.
Dukedoms
19 ....
3 .... 23 Marquisates 10 2 .... 21 Ear.doms 77 .... 25 .... 122 Baronies 99 .... 39 257 Viscountcles
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