The Clergy Directory and Parish Guide, 1873. (Bosworth).—This volume, of
which we have spoken before with deserved praise, certainly contains a great amount of information at a very low price. But it certainly doss not toll us all that we want to know, nor all that wo get from the old Clergy List. We cannot find out from it what is the clerical staff of any particular pariah. The name of the incumbent is given, but not the names of the curates, lecturers, (Ix. Would it be possible to refer to those by numbers, as the names of patrons are referred to ? Then there is no way of finding out, except by searching right through the list, what patronage each corporation or person has. Finally, and this is a defect which might easily be supplied, there is no directory to the cathedral establishments. The dean, canons residentiary, and archdeacons of each cathedral might be given, without much expenditure of space.
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