Thom's Official Director.). (Alex. Thom and Co., Dublin. 21s.) —This
is the sixtieth issue of this excellent Directory. It is especially interesting because it gives the results of the Census of 1901. Two counties only show an increase between 1851 and 1901. Dublin has grown from 405,000 to 448,000, the city accounting for 32,000, and the county for 11,000. The figures of Antrim cannot be given, as the Belfast returns have not been furnished. The town, however, had grown in 1891 from 99,126 to 212,899. The county shows 187,562 as against 264,622. Of the other counties all show a decrease, which is of more than a half in Fermanagh, Kilkenny, Meath, Queen's County, Tipperary, and Waterford. These six have dwindled from 853,589 to 410,183. We wish it were possible to have a similar Directory in England, but the bulk would be unmanageably great.
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