ANNUALS

books of which new edition or further member of series is published annually. These include desk books containing useful information, and literary annuals which preceded present Christmas number i ue of most periodicals. Old literary annuals, now rare, started with Forget-meNot (182244); among treasures of this kind are The Interary Souvenir (1824-34), to which important literary men contributed; The Keepsake (1827-56), for which Scott wrote; and The Book of Beauty (1833-56), edited by the famous Counte of Ble ing ton. Among numerous modern annuals are Whitaker’s Almanack; The Statesman’s Year-Book; Har zell’s Annual; Who’s Who; Who’s Who in America; Crock ford’s Clerical DiIn Aches annuals are plants which germinate, flower, fruit, and die in a year.