We have received from Thomas De La Rue and Co.
an assort- ment of Diaries and Calendars. The information in the diaries is edited by Mr. E. Roberts. We have also pocket-books which are intended for memoranda only. There are Index Diaries, among them the Travellers' Index Diary, with a compendium of suitable information. One set is distinguished by being bound in flexible leather. These are made in various sizes to suit varying capacities of pocket. The calendars are of the " Tablet " kind, such as can be set up on a writing-table or mantelpiece. A special variety is described as the "white seal-grain" tablet.—Messrs. Mowbray and Co. send us a number of Kalendars adorned with illustrations, taken, for the most part, from famous examples of religious art. Among them are The Red Letter Kalendar, The Children's Kalendar, The English Churchman's Kalendar, Goodly Pearls, "a sequence of daily thoughts for use during the year." Some are printed on broadsides to be used for walls, &c.; others are intended for the desk or table. We see that one is edited by the Rev. Vernon Staley, and another by Dr. Wickham Legg. Our readers will know what tone to expect. Surely it is somewhat injudicious for an editor to say that " many teetotalers are really only Manichees, and not Christians at all." Manicheism doubtless underlies many developments of asceticism. When a woman mixes ashes with her food and kills herself within a year, and is highly praised for her devotion by a Prince of the Church, what was the motive but the belief that the body and all that concerns it are evil things?
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