29 JULY 1871, Page 22

The Annual Register for the Year 1870 (Rivingtons) is a

volume of which it is scarcely necessary to do more than record the appearance. Every year seems, as we review, to have an interest above others but it may be fairly said that one which embraced such events as the CEcu- menical Council and the Franco-Prussian war has a certain prominence over others. The promise of the title-page, which engages to giro the reader a "reviow of public events at home and abroad," is carried out in a selection which seems to have been judiciously and carefully made.