| Show RECENT PUBLICATIONS A work ork deserting of wIde wille lion among the laIn I hu has just been from the press prel ot of tilt the New Nel WI the refer to lo the Pre Pree ton Ion FamilY Genealogy of whIch Bishop IJ H Preston Is II the pull pub usher and LL L A Wilson the The worK wort traC traces the hll hie tory ot of the Preston family from bout about 1040 A D In Great Britain In the New England States and In Virginia to the present enl time and is II most mOlt ad ct arranged from beginning to end One On fir If the Ihl features that make for es I is the set III or of geneal tables ur ter umily tree Just at atthe the opening of the book Mere here the th reader gets etl In one view all an outline of Ih the entire work ork Each member of the I family is II named In hi his family group I and In his generation and his hll relation relationship ship can easily eally be traced In all the I 1111 of ascent and descent through throughout out To correspond with this arrange arrangement ment the running heads head I In the body of 01 tie the work live give the numbers numbe ot of the several eral generations a as they come un under under der consideration so 10 that Ihl these gen genealogical tre trees enable one to see pe the whole family line at a glance In the body of the work too the arrangement is bath th lm Je and nd I member 0 of the l e family I Is considered ered In III Inthe the order In which his hll name appears on the diagram his hili history given so 10 far IAra faras a as known and hi his immediate descend descendant ant If any allY are arl set lOt out In detail lie Be Besides lieh sides each h person rs le given na a number m mIn In ht the lefthand column known as the index number where hI he Is named R as a achild achild child and It If he is I named d again all as the head ot of a family a reference number In the column l where here the reader rna mey look husk for a fur lur lurther further ther record In cases where the children chil children dren of oC any member are not known the lefthand column opposite hl his name remains blank and the arrangement is 18 such uch that It if this Information Is sup supplied plied later IIer the entry can r readily b made Prom this Ihl arrangement all as well 11 that thul It III as from IrolD Ii a prefatory remark the members of the Preston lr aton I scattered in parts ot of the will supply him with all the inform lion they have the time ma come when II a memorial halt be 1 worthY if f tb the name It t would l seem that this work I U to lie be used uld b by Preston as al a means of COllecting s a more extended genealogy of hll family An Another other pleasing feature of the work Is a attry avery very readable blo biographical sketch keth of Preston TIll This I is followed by byan an appendix In which are treated a number o of topics of great jiral interest Inlet to the he family properly of oC II a genealogical character Closing the work le Is a care carefully tUlly fully prepared index naming persons who were born Preston and Ind persona not born Preston The makes I a book of over four hun Bred pages It 1 Is splendidly rd la 15 printed In larl large clear tn type on book paper ot of sup finish and is III handsomely bound ht cloth oth It Is only far tor private and three hun copies ha have 1 been Issued I I II |
