The Memoir of an Employe is the history of the
turning out of Mr. SCHEENER from the Foreign Office, where he had been many years' a clerk: It is an affair with which the public have nothing to do, and about which it does not care One jot. All Mr. SCHEENER appears-to prove is, that the Foreign Office is longsuffering beyond example : had Mr. SCHEENER been the clerk of any private firm, he would many years ago have been told, in the civilest manner in the world, that the house had no occasion for his services: had he been ours, we are very much afraid that our temper would have been exhibited in a manner pointedly disageeable. The Companion to the Year Book is as full of information as it can hold. It is not so original or so scientific as the French Annuaire, from which the idea was probably taken ; but it is more generally useful. We recommend it to every inquirer—no matter into what—be he statistical, legal, scientific, naturalistical, or otherwise designated or designable.
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