10 APRIL 1897, Page 27

The Story of the Weather, by G. F. Chambers (G.

Newnes and Co.), is one of a very useful series of small manuals on subjects of common interest.—With this may be mentioned a " second edition, revised," of Remarkable Eclipses, by William Thynne Lynn (E. Stanford) ; and by the same author and publisher, Celestial Motions : a Handy Book of Astronomy.

Two volumes that record the literary product of the day are the English Catalogue of Books, 1896, sixtieth year of issue, "classified under author and subject" (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.) ; and New Catalogue of British Literature, compiled by Cedric Chivers (Library Bureau, Bloomsbury Square).