The Green Book. Edited by Douglas Sladen and W. Wigmore.
(J. Whitaker and Sons. 5s. net.)—This is a new directory of the " Upper Ten Thousand." The sub-title runs thus : " A Directory of the Court, of Society, and of the Political and Official World: Including Celebrities in Art, Literature, Science, and Sport, with many other Subjects of Current Interest." First comes the " Directory of British Titles," extending to two hundred and forty-eight pages, with, perhaps, eleven thousand names. Sub- sidiary lists of titled persons follow, among them "American Ladies Bearing British Titles by Marriage." This, we see, shows three Duchesses, one Marchioness, six Countesses, one Viscountess, and seven Baronesses, besides four widows of Peers. Eminent preachers of all denominations are to be found on pp. 419-21. We find that the Anglican Church furnishes forty-one names, the Roman ten, and the Nonconformist bodies nine.
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