Peerage Law in England. By Francis Beaufort Palmer. (Stevens and
Sons. 12s. 6d.)—This volume is, of course, mainly technical. Nevertheless, there is much in which the ordinary reader may take an interest. There is the question, for instance, of peerages by tenure, exemplified in the common belief that the earldom of Arundel goes with the castle. That such peerages have existed is probably true; but they have ceased to be. The decision in the Berkeley case in 1861 was adverse to a claim founded on this consideration. (We venture to doubt whether Lord Campbell, Lord Cranworth, Lord St. Leonard% Lord Chelmsford, and Lord Redesdale are properly described as "some of the most eminent judges who have over adorned the English bench." Lord Redesdale was not, properly speaking, a Judge at all; and Lords Cranworth and Chelmsford were not in the first rank or anywhere near it. Lord St. Leonarcle, in fact, is the only great name of the five.)
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