Debrett's Peerage and Titles of Courtesy. Edited by R. H.
Muir, LL.D. (Dean and Son.)—This is the 166th annual publication, and is corrected up to the 31st December last,—or rather, to the end of January in the present year, as "occurrences during printing" are included in the corrigenda up to the latter date. From the preface we learn that in 1878 two new Orders were founded, two baronies were called from abeyance, one dormant earldom was revived, one barony and two baronetcies became extinct, two new peerages were created, and twenty-nine gentlemen received the honour of knighthood. Death removed 15 peers, 14 peeresses, 1 bishop, 32 bayonets, and 32 knights ; the mortality among the classes indicated being somewhat below the average of the previous ten years, while the mortality among peers was smaller than in any year since 1865, when only 14 died. It is strongly bound, to fit it for library use.
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