14 NOVEMBER 1885, Page 25

Our Anniversaries. Arranged by Alice Lang. (Religious Tract Society.)—Here is

yet another birthday-book, very tastefully got up, with "a selection of texts and verses for every day in the year." This selection takes in a wide range of authors, the extracts chosen having in common a devotional character. The book may fairly claim comparison with the best of its predecessors, though our own idea of a "birthday book" is one which associates with each day the name of some of the famous men and women who may happen to have been born on it.