10 FEBRUARY 1900, Page 23

Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1900. (Dean and

Sons. 7s. 6d.)—This Directory is in its thirty-fourth year. It is illustrated with armorial bearings, and contains a variety of information cognate to the subject with which it deals.—Dod's Parliamentary Companion (Whittaker and Co., 4s. 6d.), is almost a septuagenarian. It has a very convenient shape, and gives all the information that one wishes to have in an accessible form.

County Councils, Municipal Corporations, ctc., Directory (Kelly's Directories) appears for the twenty-fourth time, and, of course, its scope and contents have been considerably enlarged since the first publication. The personnel of local bodies, whether urban or rural, is given, with other information, the most inter- esting of the miscellaneous being, perhaps, the rateable value.