10 DECEMBER 1910, Page 27

The British Almanac and Companion (Cassell and Co., ls. and

2s. 6d.) appears for the eighty-fourth time. It is "an encyclopaedia of information respecting the British Isles, the Colonies, and Foreign Countries." First wo have notes on the year and on weeks and days, law, the University terms, holidays, and festivals; then the calendar proper, with astronomical observations of sun, moon, and planets. Then comes a record of the weather, with gardening notes for each month. Details of the Houses of Parliament—these winter Dissolutions must be very incon- venient to compilers of books of reference—the Courts of Justice, the Episcopate, the Universities, &c., are given, with a great variety of other information.