BOOKS OF REFERENCE.—A gigantic task of compilation Alas been performed
by the Marquis of Ravigny, whose genealogical skill is a guarantee for its general accuracy. in producing the first issue of The Titled Nobility of Europe (Harrison and Sons, £2 2s. net). This bulky volume con- tains an international peerage or " Who's Who" of the Sovereigns, Princes, and Nobles of Europe. It deserves to become a standard work of reference. — The same publishers issue the twelfth edition of Burke's well-known Landed Gentry of Great Britain (£2 12s. 6d. net), revised by A. C. Fox-Davies.—The eighth biennial edition of Who's Who in America, edited by Albert Nelson Marquis (Stanley Paul and Co., for A. N. Marquis and Co., 21s. net), contains the condensed life-stories of 21,459 eminent American men and women, of which 4,426 are entirely new. Nearly 10,000 articles which appeared in earlier editions have been omitted on account of the subject's death or decrease in eminence. This is a useful, and indeed indispensable, work ibv the student of the contemporary history of the United States. —We have also received The Student's Handbook to the Univer- si'y of Cambridge (Cambridge University Press, 3s. net); the Report of the Forty-sixth Annual Co-operative Congress (Manchester : Co-operative Union); Low's Handbook to the Charities of London (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., is. net); and the 119th Report of the London Missionary Society (London Missionary Society, ls. 6d. net), containing a striking narrative of the labours of its self-devoted servants through- out the world.
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