CURRENT LITERATURE.
Fulcher's Pocket-Book. (Sudbury.)--.This is one of two pocket-books which for many years past—nearly fifty, we believe—have hold their own in Suffolk against all more modern kinds. Scarcely any one in that county is ignorant of Fulcher's and Pawsey's pocket-books. Fulcher's began in the days of the old Keepsakes, and to this hour is filled with tales and verses and rhymed acrostics and, charades, sent in chiefly from the county to compete for prizes distributed by the editor. The, interest of this competition seems never to have died out, and we be- lieve that the Pooket-book is still in active demand. We cannot this year say much for the verses sent, some of which are really bad enough to be valued as curiosities of literature, but an expert in such things. tells us that some of the rhymed puzzles are exceedingly good. There are two or three well-chosen landscape illustrations, and the whole is ta curious memorial of a time which, to Londoners, seems so far away.
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