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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL JAN. 5, 1907.

English localism obliterates the etymology, and the American localism restores it. It would seem to indicate that the objection is really to something new rather than some- thing bad. I say this the more cheerfully as not a champion of the spelling movement.

FORREST MORGAN. Hartford, Conn.

COURTESY TITLES AND REMARRIAGE (10 S. vi. 209, 374, 472). In answer to GENEA- LOGIST I beg to say I have referred to my reply at p. 374, and at once saw the blunder which has occasioned his query. I fear I wrote hurriedly at the moment, and apologize. The context should of course run as follows: "The lady on remarriage should drop her first husband's name and title, and accept her second husband's position." To attempt to retain the first husband's courtesy title of " Honourable " with her second husband's surname added is the absurd innovation that I wish to inveigh against. I know, however, of two cases in, which it has been done one of which I 'alluded to in my previous reply. With peeresses and " dames " it is a different matter, but it is to courtesy titles that I particularly referred. CROSS-CROSSLET.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

With an Introduction by Joseph Knight and 15

Illustrations. (Frowde.)

IT is pleasant to welcome in an Oxford edition the dramatic works of Sheridan. The special feature in the present handsome and convenient reprint consists of the illustrations, which are numerous and well selected. These comprise a fine portrait from a crayon drawing by John Russell, a second from Sir Joshua of Mrs. Sheridan as St. Cecilia, and a third of David Garrick. Actors in characters by Sheridan are T. Cooke as Carlos, Miss Chester as Lady Teazle, Mr. Terry as Sir Fretful Plagiary, Mr. Brown as Lord Foppington, Mrs. Siddons as Elvira, and Kemble as Rollo. Facsimilies of Sheridan's writing and one of a playbill announcing the fourth performance of ' The School for Scandal,' with views in Bath, Scarborough, and Seville, add to the attractions of a readable volume, which is further enriched by some valuable notes and a table of the principal dates in the life of the dramatist.

s Peerage, Baronetcy, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for 1907. (Whittaker & Co.)

FOR practical purposes of reference Dod's work, with its admirably condensed and well-arranged contents, its shape at once handsome and con- venient, and its long - standing authority the present is its sixty-seventh year of publication is unsurpassed among works of its kind. Especially serviceable and easy of use is the portion devoted

to the sons and daughters of peers bearing courtesy titles. As a guide, indeed, to the titled classes of to-day it distances in simplicity and facility of use all competitors.

The Clergy Directory and Parish Guide. (J. S.

Phillips.)

THIS best and most trustworthy guide to the clergy reaches its thirty-seventh annual issue, and com- prises the changes in diocese effected by the recent Act of Parliament for the foundation of the new sees of Southwark and Birmingham. All the customary features are preserved, including an alphabetical list of the clergy, with dates, qualifica- tion, order, and appointment ; a list of parishes and parochial districts, giving diocese, population, &c. ;. the diocesan and cathedral establishments, the dignitaries of the Irish, Scottish, and colonial churches ; and a list of societies, charitable, educa- tional, and missionary, connected with the Estab- lished Church.

The Literary Year- Book and Bookman's Director}/,.

1907. ( Routledge & Sons. )

THE eleventh annual volume of this useful and happily named work appears with the beginning of the new year. In the variety of the subjects with which it deals it differs from and surpasses most kindred publications. It is now for the first time the organ for the publication of the returns for the public libraries, the work of which it undertakes with the assistance of the Council of the Library Association. In place of the 'Index to Current Literature' which was a feature in the two pre- vious issues is given a full bibliography of George Meredith, which constitutes a separate and con* eluding portion.

An Almanack for the Year 1907. By Joseph

Whitaker, F.S.A. (Whitaker & Sons.) AMONG the books of reference which are generally readiest to the hand and most frequently and re- muneratively consulted, 'Whitaker's Almanack 3 holds, by universal consent, a conspicuous position.. Of it may almost be said, as of the great university don, that its foible is omniscience, and that, includ- ing the Supplement, it tells all concerning this and foreign countries that the ordinary man seeks to' know. Among novelties introduced into the present issue are treatises on army reform and the growth in London of travelling facilities, together with an epitomized account of the British military system.

Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage for the Year 1907. (Whitaker & Sons.)

AMONG works of its class ' Whitaker's Peerage *' counts as the cheapest and not the least trust- worthy. The arrangement, which is alphabetical,, facilitates reference.

"THE MUSES' LIBRARY" of Messrs. Routledge has been enriched with The Poem* of Thomax Love- Peacock, edited by Brimley Johnson. These in a complete form are first brought together and sym- pathetically introduced in this little volume, "the- size, price, and pictures of which are out of all pro- portion with its worth. To the same series have been added Roundell Palmer's (Lord Selborne's) Book of Praise and Thomson's Season* and Castle of Indolence, and other PoemK, in two volumes, form- ing together Thomson's complete poetical works.