2 DECEMBER 1871, Page 22

De la Rue's Pocket - Books and Diaries, — We have resolved a batch

of these of all sorts and sizes and bindings, for all purses and very nearly all purposes. They are all exceedingly good, prettily lettered, simply arranged, with carefully-prepared almanacs, and very strongly bound. Indeed, we are not quite sure that one of them, the brass-edged pocket- book, is not a little too strong for its purpose, though the metal keeps the note-paper permanently straight. We rather wonder Messrs. Do in Rue do not add two others to their list ; one, a short limp book to roll up, ruled for a cheque-book, with a penny receipt etarop on each page—a pocket cheque-book, in fact—and another ruled plain, along instead of across the page, for noting purchases, or other money transac- tions, made as lissom as a glove, and with an almanac of dividends inside it. People want these books to lie in a corner of their pockets.