The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-04 00:00:00

The Brown Book. 1864. Saunders, Utley, and Co.

Another ready reference book. Not a blue book.
Not the Red Book. Not a livre jaune. Not party-
coloured. But—a sensible, matter-of-fact, directly-
to-the- purpose, plain, blunt, honest, sober Brown
Book. A book to be published halt-yearly—so that it will
always convey the very latest information. A book that
answers, among other frequently recurring questions,
" Which is the Nearest Post Office ?" " Row shall I find
a Cemmissionaire ?" " Whereabout is the nearest Tele-
graph Office ?'' A book so apropos that it ought to be
placed so very handily for reference when required that the
possessor should come at last to say of it as Charles 11.
said of Rochester,—" Never in the way, and never out of
the way I" We don't know to whom it will prove the most
acceptable—to the old Londoner, or to the young man from
the country—to the true born Cockney, or to the unmis-
takeable Foreigner. To every one who consults it, it will
for a dead certainty prove most welcome, and all the more
welcome because, we believe, perfectly reliable.

The Gallery of Geography. Part 111. W. and

Chambers.

Good headway is beginning to be made in this
beautifully got up and carefully compiled Gallery
of Geography—good headway, both pictorially and
descriptively. " Naples, from Monte Martino," is
the subject of the engraved frontispiece. Among
the subjects treated of in the letterpress, by the
rev. author, Mr. Milner, we find reference made here in
this very number, most opportunely made, as it happens,
to the recent discoveries both in Central Africa and in
Central Australia. The elaborate introduction to the
work, it should be said, moreover, has in this number been
brought to a conclusion. And Part I. of the work itself
thereupon energetically opens up with a General View of
Europe. Afterwards, as portions of the first section of this
third part of The Gallery of Geography," we have abun-
dant particulars of " The British Isles and European Depen-
dencies." Throughout the text, are still scattered, in great
abundance, wood engravings, admirably well done and ex-
cellently well selected.

Anson's Dramatic Almanack for 1864.
The eighth yearly issue of this beautiful little
bijou of an almanack demands from us some briet
but earnest recognition of its merits as a perfect
repertory of histrionic information. It is still care-
fully compiled and revised by its originator, Mr. J.
W. Anson, one who has been for a long while
past so well and honourably known in the
Dramatic Profession in the Metropolis, and this
too in more than one responsible capacity—as Secre-
tary of the Royal Dramatic College ; as Secretary of
the Dramatic, Equestrian, and Musical Sick Fund ;
and, best of all, perhaps (certainly to the general
public) as the Treasurer of the Theatre Royal Adelphi.
The proceeds of the very compact and portable little
almanack here referred to, as annually published under the
supervision of Mr. Anson, are, year after year, handed over
by him to the Sick Fund, of which, as above mentioned, he
is the secretary. The furtherance of the interests of the
Dramatic Almanack, therefore, is in itself d►stinctly an act of
benevolence. But even looking at Mr. Anson's charming
little almanack apart from this very attractive consideration,
it is in itself so singularly interesting and valuable a com-
pilation illustrative of the artistic professions to which it
relates that, it readily enough secures for itself the wide
and widening circulation which we believe it en-
toys. That truly and it is really exceptional as an
aimanack, may be at once intimated by our mentioning, as
among the, number of ite contents, an extraeadinary re-
cord of the Great Events of the Drama for 2,300 years I A
list of the first appearances of celebrated artists I And,
together with these details, a mass of useful information in
reference to the managera and theatres, not only of London,
but besides those in the Provinces, in America, and far
away at the other side of the globe, even in Australia.

ONCE A WEEK..—The forty-fourth monthly
part of this cheap popular illustrated weekly mis-
cellany is mainly remarkable for two serial stories
—Harriet Martineau's Son Christopher, and Adol-
en formerew and of
Adol-
phus Trollope's Beppo the Conscript, th
the two absurdly illustrated by Mr. Millais, that
rarely-gifted academician, who is apparently bent upon
industriously frittering away his powers as a book illus-
trator. An extraordinary variety of papers, in prose and
verse, complete in this forty-fourth part, at once the 234th
weekly number and the sixth volume of "Once a Week,"
the aim of which periodical still appears to be the serial
publication of the very lightest contributions to the current
light literature of the age.

Literary Intelligence.

A CHEAP GALIGNANI.--A new paper is about to be ;
started in Berlin in English, to supply those who cannot
pay ten sous per day for Galignani's Messenger, with use-
ful information on Paris life, for four sous.
THE POET TIIPPERI—In consequence of a special re-
quest, Mr. Martin F. Tupper had the honour of a private
interview with their Reyal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wa:es at Frogmore on Sunday last, as we are
informed by his publishers.
MRS. LIRRIFER'S LODGINGS.—Besides Mr. Dickens'
share, the other papers are contributed by Mr. G. A. Sala,
Mr. Wilkie Collins, and Mr. Andrew Halliday. The
story of "Doctor Goliath," by the last named writer, is a
sketch from life. The original is well known in lite-
rary society, and the portrait has been generally recog-
nised.
THE PRUSSIAN PRESS takes a melancholy review of its
relations with the Government during the past year. The
Yolks Zeitunr, has been eleven times proceeded against by
the police—the National Zeitung, seven limes ; the 7ribuns
and the Borsen Zeitung, six times; the Abend Zeitung, five
times; the Berlin Allegemeine Zeitung, four times; the
Publicist, three times ; the Vossische Zeitung and the
Preussische Volksbladtt, twice ; the Spenerische Zeitung
and the German Punch (Kladeleradatsche), once. The total
amount of the flues was not very, heavy, about £3OO ; but
the editors were in many of these cases imprisoned. The
Gartenlaube was suppressed for giving an imaginary ac-
count of the loss of the Prussian brig Amazon, which really
was lost, but not in the way stated—the Prussian Govern-
ment considering the narrative as derogatory to the admi-
nistration of Prussian naval affairs I Almost all these
penalties have been inflicted for liberties which in England
would be considered milk-and-water criticisms—halt •way
between silence and blameess . S
on Schleswig-Holstuch is the liberty whichein Ger-
mans are so anxious to pr

BOOKS RECEIVED.
Henry Taylor's Poems. Philip Van Arteveldt, Sic. 3 Vols.
Chapman and Hall.
The Belle of the Ball. A Novel. By Wm. Pickersgill.
2 Vols. T. C. Newby.
Uncle Crotty's Relations. By Herbert Glyn. 2 Vols.
Smith, Elder, and Co.
Whist Studies. By A. C. and B. D. Smith, Elder and

Co.
Illustrated Horse Management. 400 Engravings. By
Henry Mayhew, M.H.C.V.S. Wm. 11. Allen and Co.
The Brown Book, 1864. Saunders, Otley, and Co.

The Metropolitan Board of Works has agreed to
contract a loan of £50,000, in order to construct the new
Finsbury-park, which will be farmed of about 120 acres of
land.
"PICKLES AND SAUCES."—Some idea of the
export trade in "pickles and sauces" may bo formed from
the fact that the declared value of such articles exported
in the eleven months ended November last was £354,902.
PRINCESS'S.—Mr. Westland Marston's new play
"Donna Maria" was not produced at this house on Satur-
day night in consequence of the sudden indisposition of
Mrs. Hermann Vizin (late Mrs. Charlys-YounO, who is to
perform the principal character.
THE GREEK GOVERNMENT intends to reduce ite
army, now 10,000 strong, to 5,000 men,