DIARIES AND ALMANACKS.—From Messrs. Hudson and Kearns (Stamford Street, SE.)
we have received various specimens of their useful "Register Date Indicating Blotting Pad" for 1914, ranging in price from 2s. to 8s. These provide, as it were, a synthesized blotter, calendar, and memorandum-book.--Many of the diaries sent to us by Messrs. T. J. and J. Smith (Charterhouse Square, E.C.) are designed for commercial purposes ; but among the three hundred varieties made by this firm everyone is likely to find what he desires.—Messrs. John Walker and Co. (Warwick Lane, E.C.) send us numerous examples of their diaries for 1914. These seem to be designed to suit every conceivable purpose, and vary between a minuteness which would almost be lost in a waistcoat pocket and an amplitude with which a modern Pepys might well be satisfied. The prices, too, vary from a few pence to more than as many shillings. A peculiar feature of some of them is an ingenious con- trivance by means of which one or more leaves may be removed without injuring the rest.—Similar qualities dis- tinguish the " Onoto " diaries published by Messrs. Thomas De La Rue and Co. (Bunhill Row). These are made in three sizes, and each size appears in a bewildering variety of different forms, at prices between 6c1. and 17s. 6d.— Numerous almanacks and calendars have reached us from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Northumber- land Avenue, W.C.), including their well-known "Churchman's Almanaek " in different shapes.—Finally, we have received from 11;;sars. Morgan and Scott (Paternoster Buildings, B.C.) a selection of calendars and motto cards illustrating texts from the Scriptures.
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