22 OCTOBER 1892, Page 27

The Classic Birthday - Book. By F. W. Aveling, MA. (Regan Paul,

Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Aveling gives under each day the name of some more or less distinguished person whose birthday it happens to be ; and he has a wide range of worthies,—Isaac Pitman, Dr. Morrison (of China), and Jeanne d'Arc appearing on one page ; and follows this up with a quotation from some classics, French, German, Latin, and Greek.