, 2 'he Literary Year - Book. Edited by Basil Stewart. (G. geutledge and
Sons. 5s. net.)—This annual appears for the thirteenth time. It gives us a calendar in which literary and artistic celebrities stand, so to speak, for saints ; an " Authors' Direttory," extending, we observe, to three hundred and twelve pages; a classified index in which names are arranged " provi- sionally " under various headings,—there aro five hundred and twenty novelists and a hundred and twenty poets ; lists of agents, typists, booksellers, periodicals, and a multitude of other persons and things about which it is woll to know. Altogether, the book is as complete as can be desired.—Dcas Peerage, Baronetage, cte. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 10s. 6d. net) is now in its sixty-ninth year. Its function is to give information about "all the titled classes," and this it does in as convenient and easily available form as could be.—The Royal Blue Book and Court Guide (Kelly's Directories, Os. not) takes a wider, and at the same time a narrower, range ; it gives us a directory for the "Upper Ton," using the term liberally, so far as they reside in London. But a publication that can put "174th Edition" on its cover is obviously independent of praise. —From the same publishers we have Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes (16s.), fulfilling yet another function "Landed" and "Official," it will be observed, arc the differentiating terms in the title. It is a volume of seventeen hundred and ninety-eight double-columned pages, and must contain not less than thirty thousand names.—With these we may mention Mowbray's Annual : the Churchman's Year-Book and Cyclopaedia (A. R. Mowbray and Co., is. net); The Farm and Home Year Book (17 Furnival Street, Holborn, Is. and 25. net) ; and he Farmer's Red Book (Mark Lane Express Office, is.)
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