DIARIES AND CAL.ENDARS.—MeSSIS D8 La Rue publish as usual a
series of Onoto Diaries for 1922, in various sizes; all are well printed and strongly bound, and the prices are moderate. A very thin diary, about four inches high, with a week to on opening, seems to us especially commendable.-The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge publishes its useful Churchman's Almanack, 1922, in different styles, at prices ranging from twopence upwards. The Churchman's Engagement Book, 1922, is to beg. commended ; it gives the daily lessons, according to the new Lectionary, which is rapidly coming into use, though it is not yet authorized.-The Navy League -Calendar for 1922 (Navy League, 2s. net) is a handsome and interesting production ; on the front is a picture of Drake's ' Golden Hinde ' labouring off Cape Horn, while on the back is a chart of her famous voyage rolmd the world, with a poem by Rear-Admiral Hopwood.-Mr. Cecil Palmer publishes two calendars of permanent value, The Garden Calendar and The Thomas Hardy Calendar (2s. net each), containing a quotation for each day in the year.-Messrs. Banks, of Cheltenham, send two hanging calendars, with the names of Robert Louis Stevenson and Everyman ; they are printed in bold type and have a quotation for each month.-The Cable Printing Company publishes an attractive Garden Lover's Diary, 1922 (2s. net), giving a week at an opening, with practical hints, poetical quotations and pictures.-The Society of SS. Peter and Paul sends its neat little Lambeth Diary, 1922, and a sheet almanac.-From the Medici Society we have once more a batch of calendars and Christmas cards, which are designed in good taste and alarmingly printed iu colours. Some of the cards and calendars bear reproductions of old masterpieces and of pictures by Mr. Anning Bell and other distinguished modems.
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