If only some one had thought three hundred years ago
of the volume which we have now before us, The Family Register, by A. G. Taunton (W. U. Allen and Co.), we should be in possession of much interesting and valuable information now hopelessly lost. Mr. Taun- ton has put together in a volume, which, to minimise the chance of loss, he has made of folio size, forms for the entries of births and baptisms, marriages and deaths, and burials. After these comes a blank genealogical table. It is not too late to begin. Most people know something, at least, of their family descent for two or three generations back, though the migratory habits which the scarcity of freehold tenure, among other causes, goes to produce, commonly interrupt such knowledge at no distant period. Let them begin by putting this down, and posterity will not fail, we feel sure, to be grateful.
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