Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage. By Sir Bernard Burke and
Ashworth P. Burke. (Harrison and Sons. 42s. net)— " Burke," in common with the conductors of other "Peerages," comments on the extraordinarily large addition made during the year 1906 to the roll of hereditary honours. Politicians who have deserved well of their party, or have the power of doing it an ill turn if they are not placated, naturally make up between them a long list. One result, in the case of a volume which seeks to give all the kindred of ennobled or dis- tinguished persons, is a serious addition to the bulk. "Burke" now extends to two thousand three hundred and sixty-one pages ; a few more years of a Radical Government and it will be a rival of the "London Post Office Directory." The volume now before us shows the characteristic excellences of the work. It is a valuable book of reference as regards the genealogical side of history.—We have also received Watford's County Families of the United Kingdom (Spottiswoode and Co., 60s.), now appearing for the forty-seventh time. The scope of the book is set forth in the sub-title ; it is" a manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland." The crux is in the word " untitled" ; the difficulty which the word implies is sur- mounted in " Walford's" with success.
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