5 FEBRUARY 1910, Page 30

Thent's Official Directory. (A. Them and Co., Dublin. 21s.)— This

volume keeps-up- its reputation for fullness of information, for giving, indeed, some details which are not to be found else- where. There is the rateable value of houses in Irish towns. Why is there nothing of the kind in English directories ? We look, however, in vain, at least in the index, for the item of "Old- Age Pensions." A paragraph giving the estimated population of Ireland for 1908, the probable number of persons entitled to pensions, according to the usual proportions of the aged to the population, and the amount of pensions paid, would have been very interesting. Under, the heading of "Old-Age Pensions" in the index we find nothing beyond "Old-Age Pensions Committees."