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colour-printing, both incorporated with the text and in full-page plates, as supplements suitable for being framed.

The Picture Magazine (George Newnes and Co., South-ampton-street, Strand), in addition to abundant illustrationof modern subjects, has a specialty of old prints and pictures,many of which are very quaint and comic. A page of IsaacWatts’ manuscript in facsimile will interest readers of his" Hymns. " The same firm publishes a weekly called TheMillion, and books of nursery rhymes, all crowded withcoloured pictures.

DIARIES.

Messrs. CASSELL and Co. send us Letts’s Office Diary andAlmanac for 1895. This is a substantial quarto volume,having each page headed for one day of the year. Prefixedare about fifty pages of general information-such as listsof official personages of all classes, a copious directory offoreign, colonial, and country banks, life insurance com-

panies, &c.-Letts’ Medical Diary for 1895 maintains its

reputation for portability and convenience of reference.Each fourth page shows the seven days of each week of theyear, the intervening pages being suitably ruled for theinsertion of patients’ names. The oblong shape is con-venient for the pocket.

Messrs. CHARLES LETTS and Co., 3, Royal Exchange, E.C.,send us a large selection of their well-known Diaries, VisitingLists, Calendars, Blotting-pads and Calendars combined, andother useful memorandum books. Their Improved Office Diaryand Note-Book appears in several sizes and bindings, with orwithout blotting interleaves, and contains a large amountof useful information prefixed in tabular form. 6%<xLetts’s &Aacute; B C Medical Diary and Wsiting List has columnsfor patients’ names with corresponding rulings for each dayof the month and week, obstetric engagements, and manyother pages for memoranda. The Excerpta Therapeutica,

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bound up with it, is a useful description of all the newer andmore important drugs. Charles Lt>tts’s Hospital Nurses’ Diaryand Handbook for 1895 is tastefully bound in scarlet clothwith gilt lettering, and provides six or seven lines formemoranda for each day of the year. It contains tabularinformation useful to nurses and an interesting sketch of therise and progress of trained nursing.

Messrs. WIFLIAIVI COLLINS, SONS and Co. (London andGlasgow) provide a varied assortment of convenient diaries,suitable both for the office and for the pocket. Their largeScribbling Diary, interleaved with blotting-paper, shows ateach opening all the days of a week separately dated. The

Commercial and Octavo Diaries are similar in arrangement,but smaller. Of their Pocket Diaries there are about half adozen different patterns and varieties, well bound and gilt-edged.

New Inventions.A NEW ARTIFICIAL EYE.

WE have had submitted to us for our opinion an artificialeye of a novel character. It is well known that a not incon-siderable number of those who have undergone removal ofthe eyeball are from one cause or another (contracted socket,for example) unable to wear the ordinary artificial eye.Indeed, it is not uncommon for considerable irritation andsoreness to be set up, so that, for sympathetic reasons, themedical attendant is obliged to forbid the use of the familiarglass eye. We have described in our columns the methodadopted by Dr. W. J. Collins to conceal the deformity resultingafter a successful removal of an extensive orbito-maxillarysarcoma, and think it is due to the inventor of the apparatuswe are now noticing to say that we had our attention drawn

to it before we printed Dr. Collins’ interesting case,’- other-wise it might be conceived that the present idea was an adap-tation of Dr. Collins’ method. The eye submitted to us byMr. T. Partridge Salt, of Corporation-street, Birmingham, isheld in position by attachment to a pair of spectacles, and

rests lightly against the lids, having flesh-coloured eyelids

carefully moulded around the glass portion of shape and tintto accord precisely with the requirements of each individualcase. It is made entirely of non-corrosive material, and isin no way acted upon by the tears or secretions of the eye-lids. We can understand the invention to be very useful in

removing from a not very rare class of patients a distressingsense of nnsisrhtliness.

"RESPIRO-REGENERATOR, OR PERFECT INHALER."WE have received a specimen of the " Respiro-regenerator,

or Perfect Inhaler." It is a cylindrical metal vessel, betweenone and two pints in capacity, with a handle at the side and

a close - fitting, perforatedlid, from the middle ofwhich rises a long caout-chouc mouth-piece. Withinthe vessel is a recess whichreceives a wide - mouthedglass bottle for the medica-ment to be inhaled. Ob-viously it will answer wellfor most of the Vapores ofthe British Pharmacopoeia,as it may be used eitherwith or without hot water,and the breathing throughthe mouth - piece is con-

venient and free. When theinhalation is concluded the

bottle is stoppered, and thecontents are in readiness

for the next occasion. The inventors and manufacturers areMessrs. J. G. Ingram and Son, London Indiarubber Works,Hackney Wick.

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THE " MOVILLETTE " GLASSES.

WE have had brought to our notice certain eyeglassesmade in the pince-nez shape for which, among others, a greatadvantage is claimed. They are said always to maintaintheir horizontal position; and we have tested the assertionand find that under all ordinary circumstances they do so.

The security of immovable foci in the pince-nez shape forastigmatic patients is, we believe, a distinct novelty, thoughit has been secured by very simple means. The bridgebetween the lenses is rigid, and the nose is grasped, but withno uncomfortable tightness, by little plaquets obtaining theirpressure from separate springs. The I Movillette" glasses maybe obtained from the inventors, Messrs. J. Raphael and Co.,Wholesale Opticians, 13, Oxford-street, W.

1 THE LANCET, Sept. 29th, 1894.