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Watford's County Families. (Spottiswoodo and Co. 50s.)—The descriptive sub-title of

this volume, now appearing for the fifty- second time, is that it is a "Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland." There are peculiar difficulties in the editing of such a work, the dis- tinguishing lines which include or exclude being somewhat vague and variable ; our impression from an acquaintance of long stand- ing with the volume is that the editing has been well done, and that the excellent tradition of the founder, Edward Walford (1825-1897), has been maintained.