22 DECEMBER 1883, Page 24

Fulcher's Pocket-Book. (A. Pratt, Sudbury.)—We have received this, the oldest,

we believe, of all the country pocket-books. It is fall of engravings, sometimes very good ; of poetry, for which we can say but little, though here and there we find a pretty verse ; and of enigmas and double acrostics, of mixed merit. We do not quite understand the attraction of such publications, but they must possess some, or they would not appear so steadily year after year through long lives. There are families in Suffolk which possess entire shelves full of Fulcher's Pocket-Book.