The British Almanac and Companion, 1894. (Stationers' Com- pany.)—This useful
almanac appears again, with its customary variety of information, political, social, and other, astronomical tables, lists of official personages, and other matters such as one would commonly desire information abcut. The Colonies and foreign countries are separately treated. It is interesting to observe that the total amount of annuities and pensions is £334,538 102. 10d. ; the Civil List Pension, £1,200 being granted every year, can hardly make up the amount to £350,000. The Republic on the other side of the Atlantic—and we are always being lectured on the extravagance of a Monarchy—spend in pensions about thirty-fire millions, i.e., nearly one hundred times as much.—From the same publishers we have The Clergyman's Almanac, a very serviceable little publication, conveniently sized for lying on the reading-desk, among other uses.
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