SEED AND BRETT'S ALMANAC, 1876.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4405, 25 December 1875, Page 3

SEED AND BRETT'S ALMANAC, 1876.

T is perhaps hardly fair to ask a newspaper writer to give ail opinion of an almanac for the ensuing year. It is cot like a book •which he can sit down and read, and which (and even sometimes without that preliminary) forthwith he is in a position to criticise. An almanac is in the same categoiy as a dictionary, and we fancy the critics of Dr. Johnson's era must have been somewhat puzzled to give an off-hand judgment on the magnum opus of the great lexicographer. 3?airly, an almanac can only be spoken- of at the ei'.' • f the year, when it has had the test of .. il 7 reference, and has became familiar by .• > fant use. No publisher, however, would i.:ank us for giving a notice of an old almanac. Messrs. Reed and Brett, however, are in Shis position, that they can point to their last year's almanac, and Bay, if that was good, this is better, for we improved where that could be done, and supplied all that we found was wanting. Tne almanac is an "Auckland" almanac, and deals almost entirely "with " our province," and with a somewhat extensive knowledge of the subject, we have failed to detect and Amission or error. The information given is brought up to date, and is minute any accurate. I