Walford's County Families of the Unitei Kingdom (Chatto and Windus,
50s.) has now reached its forty-second year, a most interesting and valuable publication, the correcting and keeping up of which must entail upon its conductors a quite incalculable amount of work. It is the "Libro d'Oro" of British "grandees," and though some intruders may be found in it, it is generally to be trusted.—The Clergy List (Kelly's Directories, 12s. 84.) for this year does not, we think, present any new fee,' ures, but it seems, as usual, to have been carefully corrected and brought up to date.—Who's Who in America, edited by John W. Leonard (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.), is a volume of formid- able proportions. Its pages exceed 1,300 in number, and it contains 11,551 biographies. It is interesting to observe that among foreign countries contributing to this roll of "prominent citizens" in the list of "Birthplaces" England stands first with 287, and Germany second with 238. Ireland has 146, not a large number considering the amount of the Irish immigration, and Scotland has 84. Of the States the order is : New York (2,066), Massachusetts (1,130), Penn- sylvania (1,020), Ohio (806), Connecticut (379), Illinois (373), Maine (361), Virginia (307). The "Present Location" list exhibits a significant difference. New York has absorbed more. than its natives, and has 2,849, while Massachusetts has 1,010, Pennsylvania 880, Connecticut 266, Maine 99, and Virginia 145. But Illinois has nearly doubled its roll to 701, while the District of Columbia, showing 90 natives, has 889 distin• srnished residents,
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