We have received some specimens of a number of Diaries,
Pocket-books, and the like, known as Letts's Diaries, 4c. (Cassell and Co.) One of the most convenient is Letts's Office Diary and Almanac, with the usual apparatus of information and a page of space for each day. There is a peculiarly handy little publication called Letts's Card-ease Diary ; another slightly larger, but quite justifying its name, is Letts's Pocket Diary.
We have received from Messrs. C. W. Faulkner and Co. a number of Christmas and New-Year Cards, specimens selected from a total of about a thousand different designs, and varying in price from one penny upwards. Some are of the serious, some of the comic kind; there are landscapes, figure-pieces, birds, and beasts. One ought to be able to suit every taste with one or other. But to whom would one send a fancy picture of a very pretty girl ? We have also received from the same firm some specimens of new games, one of them we see named "Fighting for the Standard." There is something combative in the air just now. Messrs. Faulkner tell us that they have twenty-nine games in their new list. We wonder whether any one of them will "catch hold."
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