10 DECEMBER 1892, Page 23

Messrs. Marcus Ward and Co. send us copies of their

pretty Pocket-books, and Diaries for the mantelpiece or the table. They also send very pretty Illustrated Calendars, with quotations from either the Bible or Shakespeare, or a variety of poets, which com- bine ornament with use and interest. The diaries are in four parts, and so furnish much more room for daily notes than the ordinary diaries. Of the Christmas and New Year's Cards, which are this year as gay as ever, we need only say that they are issued

in great variety, and show plenty of resource on the part of those who have prepared them. The pictures are very pretty, and some of them humorous, too.