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THE PEERAGE, BARONETAGE, and KNIGHTAGE, hy J. FOSTER. It contains also a hitherto unpublished list of the Baronets of Nova Scotia, compiled by Robert Milne, of Edinburgh, soon after the Union, and a chapter of Addenda to the Baronetcy, entitled " Chaos," including, among other matters, notes upon all apparently doubtful claims to the title of Baronet which have come to the knowledge of the Editor. The THIRD EDITION has been considerably enlarged and care- fully corrected throughout, and is illustrated by numerous additional woodcuts of Arms and chart pedigrees of the Royal Family. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. IT may fairly be presumed, since Mr. Foster has had free access to the records of the Heralds' College, and the aid of Garter and Bluemantle, that this new Peerage is more accm'ate than those that have preceded it. . . . Mr. Foster has collected an immense amount of new matter for this work, as may be seen at once on comparing it with other Peerages and Baronetages, and in most instances he gives far fuller genealogies of the later generations of titled families than have previously appeared. An attractive feature in this work, and one that seems likely to commend it to the public, is its engravings, and the armorial designs which accompany each article, and are of more artistic merit than those usually supplied in works of the kind. The most original feature, and one which will doubtless attract a good deal of attention, is a section styled " Chaos," at the end of the Baronetage, of great novelty and boldness. — This portion of the work will probably disgust those persons whose pretensions it calls in question, though on the other hand it will certainly please genealogists and all those who do not approve of per- sons becaring honours to which they are not entitled. . . . Mr. Foster is deserving of praise for his courage in scru- tinizing the pretensions of self-styled Baronets, and the facts which he has stated may tend to restrain claimants of hereditary honours from assuming their titles bef'>re having proved their pedigrees. — Athenwum. The labour spent by Mr. Foster on this volume must have been immense ; for under every title, whether of the Peers or of the Baronets, he gives not only all the male issue, directly or collaterally related to the title, and in remainder to it, but also BAROX WIMBORNE.