The British Almanac and Companion for 1895. (Stationers' Company.)—This yearly
publication—it has now reached its sixty-eighth year of issue—comes with its accustomed supply of useful information, astronomical, civil, legal, commercial, political. The "State Pensions" is printed from a Parliamentary paper, but surely it would have been well to note that Sir J. F. Stephen and Lord Harmon (both of whom died in March last) were no longer on the list. Sir Rupert Kettle's name also appears. All these are mentioned in the Obituary. Under the head of "Taxes, Licenses, and Stamp Duties," it might have been as well to state, apropos of Income-taxes, the allowances under Schedule A. These are, it is true, given in the summary of the Finances Act ; but then every one will not look there.—From the same pub- lishers we also have received The Clergyman's Almanac, with its usual information, ecclesiastical and general. The price has been reduced (2s. ad. to ls. Gd.) with no other change than from a cloth JO a stiff paper binding.
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