30 DECEMBER 1911, Page 25

The Year 1911 Illustrated (the Daily News, 2s. 6d. not)

is "a Record of Notable Achievements and Events." The volume is, so to speak, inaugurated with a notice of the death of Leo Tolstoy, with a portrait. A great variety of items follow. Among them are "The Coronation," with portraits of the King and Queen; representations of Westminster Abbey, &c. ; the La Gio- conda picture, railway and dock strikes, eminent statesmen, English and Colonial, &c.