26 DECEMBER 1896, page 25

The Post Office London Directory, 1897. (kelly And Co.)...

now that a few alterations have been made in certain details, is about as perfect and complete as anything of the kind can be. Here is a huge volume—it has increased by more......

Hazell's Annual For 1897. Edited By W. Palmer, B.a. (hazell,

Watson, and Viney.)—This "cyclopedic record of men and topics of the day" shows, we think, an improvement in this present issue, especially in the manifest purpose of the editor......

Torn Brown's Schooldays, By Thomas Hughes (macmillan And...

in a very elegant edition, with illustrations by Mr Edmund J. Sullivan. For the local pictures in Rugby, exteriors and interiors, and various scenes of school-life, we have......

The Evolution Of A Wife. By Elizabeth Holland. (john Milne.)

— One feels sorry to be unable to speak in terms of quite hearty praise of this book. For the author has evidently a not incon- siderable ambition, and meant to make a genuinely......