Saydn's Dictionary of Dates. Twenty-fourth Edition. (Ward, Lock, and Co.
21s. net.)—This indispensable book of reference has considerably overpassed its Diamond Jubilee. It was first published in 1841. The projector, whose name it still bears, gave up the editorship in 1857 to Mr. Benjamin Vincent. The office seems to be now in commission, and is discharged as efficiently as ever. Meanwhile the number of pages has grown from five hundred and sixty-eight to fifteen hundred and eighty- four, the growth being really greater than these figures would indicate, as the pages are larger and more closely printed. Great pains, it is evident, have been taken to keep up the character of the book for accuracy and completeness. The chronicle of events, also, has been brought down to the latest date. Under the heading of "France," for instance, we find a notice of the appoint.. ments of Major Dreyfus and General Picquart.
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