Waiford's County Families of the United Kingdom (Chatto and Windus)
appears in its "thirty-fourth annual publication." There is little or nothing to be said of this useful volume that has not been said before. It gives information which could not be found elsewhere. If a critic should object that all the families mentioned are not "county," it might be answered that the word is difficult to define, and of continually shifting application. Some of these magnates are certainly "ancestors," but they are not the less noticeable for that —Kelly's Handbook of the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes (Kelly and Co.) is now but one year short of its majority, and is so well known as to need no com- mendation. It is corrected, we see, up to January 25th, and will be found, from the combination of information which it gives, to be peculiarly useful.
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