15 NOVEMBER 1884, Page 23

Fulche?s Pocket-book for 1885.—This local pocket-book--one of the very few

now published in England—appears rather early, and is filled with the usual matter, poetry—not this year very good,— illustrations very fair, but not sufficiently local, and enigmas this year unusually clever, the second prize one, for example, being really good. We do not know who exactly wants this kind of production, but there is no doubt that in the country it has an attraction, or it would not survive as this one has done for generation after generation. The pocket-book has, of course, the information always needed and found in pocket-books.