25 AUGUST 1894, Page 23

More about Names. By Leopold Wagner. (T. Fisher Unwin.) -

Those deficient in the more elementary general knowledge, we mean the knowledge that everyday life should inculcate, will undoubtedly find Mr. Wagner's book useful. To us it seems that he has undertaken to catalogue and explain all the common- places of life. We have not found more than a dozen instances of names that really required elucidation, and on the other hand several words are omitted where the context would seem to make such omission impossible. For instance, no mention is made of "copper weddings" in the paragraph on wedding anniversaries. But this is the age of cramming, when people wish to become learned without acquiring a solid grounding of information.