Messrs. De La Rue send us their usual issue of
Pocket-books and Diaries. They are always most excellent, not only in appearance, but judged from the standpoint of utility. Even the smaller Diaries and Almanacks are miniature encyclopaedias. If some day two thousand years hence one of De La Rue's or Letts's Diaries (of which we have also received several very useful and attractive specimens) is found in a tomb or under a foundation, the antiquarian of the day will be able to recon- struct therefrom "the whole learning of the ancients."-- Christmas Cards and Calendars have been sent us by Marcus Ward, and also by Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Sons. Many of them are pretty in design, and on all of them has been bestowed a great deal of skill and care. But of Christmas Cards and Christmas Calendars the only possible thing is to say in Mr. Lincoln's words : " Those who like that sort of thing, that's just the sort of thing they like."
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