The Reader's Handbook. By the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
(Chatto and Windus.)—This is a welcome addition to the list of what may be termed the really handy reference-books, combining as it does a dictionary of literature with a condensed encyclopmdia, interspersed with items one usually looks for in common-place books. The appendices contain the dates of celebrated and well-known dramas, operas, poems, and novels, with the names of their authors.
The Statesman's Year-book, edited by Frederick Martin (Macmillan), has now reached its seventeenth annual publication, and seeing that it has now been issued two years in succession without preface or introduction, we presume Mr. Martin can find no further room for improvement. So far as we have tested it, we have found the con- tents corrected up to December 30th.
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