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The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art for 1870,

by John Timbs (Lockwood), is a modest and useful volume, of which we have noticed previous issues with a commendation which we are glad to repeat. With this may be mentioned the issue for the last year of a well-known book which can boast of a considerable antiquity, and has, for the most part, been the work of able writers, which has numbered, indeed, among its writers some men of high reputation, the Annual' Register : a Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad. (Rivingtons.> —A summary of the proceedings of Parliament, a sketch of what has been done in literature and art, a short account of foreign affairs,. "remarkable occurrences," and "remarkable trials" make up the usual programme, and are both comprehensive and well executed.