Kelly's Handbook of the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes, 1892
(Kelly and Co.), appears in its "eighteenth annual edition." Besides the usual information, Parliamentary, &c., it contains an alphabetical list of all persons possessing distinction,—of, is fact, the " Upper Ten." We do not profess to have accurately reckoned the number of names, but we may calculate, on the basis of two facts, 1,181 pages, with an average of 16 names on each, that the total comes to not far off an " Upper Twenty."—With this may be mentioned a well-established annual—it has reached its fifty-second year--Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage (Whit- taker and Co.) ; and a work scarcely less known, though not boasting an age so venerable, Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, the " twenty-sixth annual edition" (Dean and Son).—Another periodical, though of a very different kind, is The Year's Art, compiled by Marcus B. Huish (J. S. Virtue and Co.), "a concise epitome of all matters relating to the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture."
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