The Annual Register for the Year 1874. (Rivingtons).—The Anneat Register
is always well done. So much we can say from the experience of not a few years, and so much we may repeat on the present occa- sion. It may be well to remind our readers that the volume, which is a handsome octavo of about 650 pages, consists of two parts, the first i containing two divisions, severally devoted to "English "and "Foreign 1 History ;" the second comprising a chronicle, a sort of Acta Diurna of remarkable events, an obituary of eminent persons, an account of re- ! mailable trials (this year includes the end of the Tichborne trial, i e., I the conclusion of Dr. Kenealy's speech, Mr. Hawkins' reply to the Chief Justice's summing-up, and the Fredericks' legitimacy trial), public documents and State papers, promotions and appointments, and a full index.—In the same connection we may mention a similar work for which we wish an existence equally prolonged, The Year-Book of Facts in Science and the Arts for 1874, by Charles W. Vincent (Ward, Lock, and Tyler).
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