We have received The British Almanac and Companion for 1888.
(Stationers' Company.)—The " Almanac " contains the usual details about times and seasons, facts astronomical, ecclesiastical, and official ; the "Companion," now in its sixty-first year, furnishes a great amount of general information. Part I. contains a number of essays on various eubjeote, scientific, social, and political. Mr. W. T. Lynn, for instance, discusses "Periodical Comae," and Mr. A. S. Davis, "The Telephone and Acoustics." Mr. W. E. A. Axon con- trasts Great Britain in 1837 and in 1887. The other articles are i- " The Royal Commission on Depression in Trade," by A. L. Roberts ; " The National Poultry and Egg Supply," by J. G. Bertram ; " Horse- Breeding," by W. Blew ; "Imperial Ocean Penny Postage," by E. Cant-Wall ; and "Foreign Colonies and Dependencies," by A. J. R. Trendell. The second part gives summaries of what has been done in various departments, as architecture, art, music, science, Jim., abstracts of important Acts and Parliamentary documents, "Chronicle of Events," and "Obituary." A very useful volume, this.
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