1827." 



Domestic and Foreign. 



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births, marriages, and issue of all living 

 members of each family descended in the 

 male line from the first peer, or in case of 

 a barony in fee, from the marriage, by 

 which the honour passed into the family 

 now in possession. In peerages of very 

 recent creation, the living and married 

 brothers and sisters of the first peer, and 

 the descendants from the brothers are in- 

 cluded. All individuals who have mar- 

 ried are retained so long as any member 

 of their generation survives. All who 

 have died unmarried are omitted, unless 

 one or other of the parents is living, or 

 unless the individual was heir-apparent to 

 the title." 



Every member of a family occupies a 

 distinct paragraph ; and what, it seems, 

 is worthy of notice, all the males of each 

 family appear in the work in the rotation 

 in which they would be called to the in- 

 heritance of the title. The names of those 

 who are known to be deceased are printed 

 in italics. 



When a collateral branch is introduced, 

 all its subsequent descendants are deno- 

 minated by their relationship to the pre- 

 sent head of the branch, and not, as in 

 other cases, to the existing peer. 



The whole peerage is distinguished by 

 its three grand divisions into English, 

 Scotch, and Irish "thus avoiding the per- 

 plexity which the more strictly correct 

 subdivisions of the first class into peerages 

 of England, of Great Britain, and of the 

 United Kingdom." 



The titles of the peer are given at the 

 head of each article, but the actual title 

 only is expressed, without adding the 

 place from whence it is taken. As some 

 compensation, however, the Christian names 

 are printed in capitals. 



4< In the successions of the respective 

 peerages a difference will, in many in- 

 stances, be found between the present 

 computation and that hitherto in use j 

 peeresses in their own right not having 

 formerly been taken into the account 

 (shocking !) as they are in this publica- 

 tion ; and in cases of attainted peerages 

 now restored, and those which have been 

 dormant, the persons who are entitled to 

 them by inheritance are also reckoned, 

 but this is always noticed in its place." 



Some very ingenious and some very 

 effective abbreviations will also be found 

 in references for instance, instead of the 

 round-about " Admiral the Honourable 

 John Forbes, second son of George, third 

 Earl of Granard," you have " Admiral 

 the Honourable John Forbes of GRA- 

 NARD^ and if you want to know any 

 more of him and his genealogy, you must 

 turn to the family of Granard, where he 

 will appear at full length. The word 

 " dec." also is affixed to the name of any 

 dead person, instead of " the late." 



The whole peerage is thrown into one 

 alphabetical arrangement ; but to mark 



the legal order of precedence, a list i 

 prefixed, according to seniority of cre- 

 ation. 



The family of Saxe Coburg Saalfield 

 " a novelty in an English work of this 

 nature." Another novelty, by the way 

 all the STILL-BORNS are enumerated. 

 Vide Grantham family. 



But the bishops we declare the treat- 

 ment is scandalous, particularly of the 

 plebeian ones. Just one line a piece for 

 the name and date of appointment, unless 

 they have had the luck of translations. 

 Not a word for the ladies nor for sons 

 and daughters. Just as if they had none 

 to bless themselves with. Nor even the 

 date of their birth how are expectants to 

 calculate the day of their death ? 



Elements of Geometry, with Notes, by 

 J. R. Young. Baldwin, London. 1827. 

 The same sort of boundless respect for 

 the name and example of a great man, 

 which led our countrymen to overlook for 

 so many years the progress which science 

 had made upon the Continent, has occa- 

 sioned their almost universal adherence to 

 the Elements of Euclid ; and while many 

 introductory treatises on geometry have 

 appeared from the foreign press, very few 

 indeed have issued from our own. None 

 have equalled the Greek mathematician in 

 rigorous demonstration. In perspicuity 

 he has no rival except, perhaps, in the 

 part of his work which treats of geome- 

 trical proportion. This is abstruse, and 

 subtle, and intricate. The doctrine of 

 proportion, as connected with geometry, 

 must necessarily be so. Hence Legendre 

 has excluded the consideration of it from 

 his Elements, leaving all knowledge of the 

 subject to be acquired from numerical 

 proportion. This is a defect which Mr. 

 Young has ablj r supplied. Indeed, we 

 have never seen a work so free from pre- 

 tension, and of such great merit. We will 

 briefly mention a few points wherein it is 

 superior to all similar productions : 



In reference to the general plan of the work 

 (observes the author), I have taken a more en- 

 larged and comprehensive view of the Elements 

 of Geometry than I believe has hitherto been done ; 

 as I have paid particular attention to the converse 

 of every proposition throughout these elements 

 having demonstrated the converse wherever such 

 demonstration was possible, and in other cases 

 shewn that it necessarily failed. 



By introducing the well known and very 

 elegant proposition of Da Cunha, the 

 theory of parallel lines is rendered free 

 from ambiguity. Of the improvements in 

 the doctrine of proportion we have already 

 spoken. Of the demonstrations through- 

 out the work, some are new, and the 

 rest judiciously selected. Various falla- 

 cies latent in the reasonings of some cele- 

 brated mathematicians, both of ancient 

 and modern date, are pointed out, and dis- 

 cussed in a tone of calm moderation, which 



