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THE PEERAGE, BARONETAGE, and KNIGHTAGE, hj J. FOSTER. It reflects great credit upon the author. . . , The volume, which has been produced in a superior manner, will doubtless take its place amongst the standard works of reference on genealogy. — The Court Journal. The work is fuller in detail than any other, for not only are all the male descendants of titled houses recorded but the children of the female members as well, and the lineage is given with far more minute and elaborate detail than in contem- porary works It is elegantly printed, luxuriously bound in blue and gold, lucid in its descriptions, admirably arranged, and beautifully artistic in its heraldic decorations. — Daily Bristol Times and Mirror. The comprehensiveness of its heraldic and genealogical information is vast, and to the student, and those who are interested, from various causes, in tracing the Royal lineage of England, as well as the pedigrees of ancient families and their remote collateral branches, it offers a wide field for research. The illustrations in the work are made a speciality. They are boldly and clearly drawn, the minutest details of each being well defined. — The Brighton Guardian. This handsome royal octavo volume, with its wealth of heraldic ornamentation embodies a most praiseworthy attempt on the part of the compiler to raise the editorial standard of works of reference of this class. Mr. Eoster shows himself to be a painstaking genealogist, and his claim to have treated his subject on broader bases, to have consulted unaccustomed, yet trustworthy, sources of information, and to have, in general terms, made it more of a true genealogist's book of reference than Peerages have been heretofore, may be readily allowed. The trickings of arms throughout the book are executed with care and in remarkably good taste, and such of the genealogies as we have tested, at present, have been found full of detail and accurate in the main. Upon the whole, this new candidate for popular favour will, we imagine, prove a most formidable competitor to the old-established Peerages, especially as we learn that Mr. Foster has received valuable assistance and advice from so distinguished a herald as Sir A. "W. Woods, Garter, are faultless, and the heraldic illustrations, as we have already remarked, leave nothing to be desired. — The Derby Mercury. The printing and press-work