Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland
for 1889. (Whittaker and Co.)—This well-known perio- dical has now reached its forty-ninth year. It reaches to nearly a thousand pages, and gives copious information on all the matters connected with its subject. It is a really valuable book of reference. —The Catholic Directory : Ecclesiastical Register and Almanac for 1889. (Burns and Oates.)—Hero we have to record the "fifty- second annual publication." There are, we see, just above a thousand Archbishops and Bishops, seventy-seven of them belong- ing to the Oriental rite. The senior Cardinal is Cardinal Mertel ; but he is not the oldest in years. That distinction belongs to Cardinal Newman, born in 1801. Only eighteen of Pius IX.'s creations survive. The College is short of its normal number by seven. There are five Roman Catholic . Members of Parliament for England, and seventy-five for Ireland. The priests in Great Britain number somewhere about 2,700.
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