DIARIES AND AtitANAcs.—We have received from Messrs. 'Cassell and Co.
a variety of Letts's Diaries. There is Letts's Office Diary and Almanac (No. 51), an almost stately folio which might -serve, besides commoner uses, the purpose of any one who had it in his mind to benefit posterity by another such work as the (Ireville Memoirs. Every day has a page allotted to it, and the contents of the whole would furnish a large octavo volume at the least. There are also some thirty printed pages of informa- tion about days and times, postages, banks, and the various other matters for which one is accustomed to refer to an almanac. Another volume (No. 1), suitable, we should say, for a physician or lawyer, gives the same conveniences and facilities in a quarto shape, the pages being more closely ruled ; and there is yet another, an octavo (No. 8). Of 12mo size (No. 12) there is the Pocket Diary and Almanac. Each, we should say, is furnished with an adequate number of pages ruled for cash accounts.—Of the pocketbook shape, we have the Daily Remembrancer and Diary (13s), with a leaf for a week's entries, faced by another for cash accounts ; the Medical Diary, "especially providing for all matters of interest to the general practitioner;" and the Gentleman's Pocket Diary and Almanac, with the pages for cash relegated to the end.—In the same form we have from the Religious Tract Society the Religious Tract Society Pocket-Book and Scripture Calendar, giving a text for every day; the Young People's Pocket-Book, similarly furnished (the lady whose portrait supplies the frontispiece is not H.R.H. " Princess Louise of Fife," but the "Duchess of Fife ") ; the Penny Almanac, with the Pocket-Book Almanac, and the People's Almanac.—Messrs. Griffith, Pitman, and Co., send us Pettitt's Scribbling Octavo Diary, Annual Diary, each with two pages for a week, cash accounts, &c. ; Blackwood's Larger Foolscap Diary (No. 7), and Blackwood's Shilling Scribbling Diary. They also publish The Week, a diary of engagements, &c., which is meant to be suspended on the wall.—The British Almanac and Companion (Stationers' Hall) is a periodical volume which it is scarcely necessary to commend to our readers. It contains the usual calendar, information about the Royal Households, Parliament, Universities and Schools, the Church, the Army and Navy, a list of last Session's Acts of Parliament, with " abstracts of the more important ones ;" a list of State pensions, facts about the Colonies, &c. The Stationers' Company also publishes the Clergy- man's Almanac, a handy pocket volume, with items of suitable information.
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