13 DECEMBER 1879, Page 24

Marcus Ward's Pocket - Books and Diaries. — We have received Messrs. Marcus Ward's

set of pocket-books, with the "concise diary" inside. They are all very convenient and neat, and one (No. 2 size) seems to us a model of good workmanship. The weak point in these, as all other pocket-books, is the elastic strap. It closes the book much better than any clasp, but it wears out, at lent, in our experience, mouths before the leather. Could not the strap he made of leather, with a single inch of some exceptionally strung elastic: material. Wire does not do.