Tice Reform of the Calendar. By Alexander Philip. (Kogan Paul,
Trench, and Co. 4e. 6c1. net.)—Would one social life be conveniencal by a reform of the calendar which should make the same days of the week and of the month coincide year by year ? Mr. Philip thinks that it would, and in this thoughtful book discusses the various proposals for such a reform. His own suggestion is that New Year's Day, and in leap years "Leap Day," should be called by those names alone, and that January 1st should thus always be a Sunday. He also wishes to see the months simplified by giving thirty days to each except March, June, September, and December, which should have thirty-one. We wonder that it has not occurred to him that it would be still simpler to have thirteen months of twenty-eight days each, and then the first day of every month could be a Sunday too.
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