2 DECEMBER 1882, Page 25

Pulcher's Pocket book. (A. Pratt, Sudbury.)—One of the very few

local pocket-books now published, and which bring to those who open them a flavour of the older time, when there were no railways, or magazines, or local circulating libraries, and girls and boys found in a production of this kind amusement for many evenings. It con- tains, besides the regular furniture of such books, five engravings, one very good, of Balmer; a story ; much original poetry, usually semi-religious, melodious, and thin ; and a host of prize charades, enigmas, and double acrostics of very varying merit. The first one this year is excellent. The editor will do well to make of the acrostics a more distinct feature. They interest men who will not waste five minutes on conundrums, and may be made much more perplexing.