THE "ANNUALS."

THE number and beauty of these publications would seem to demand from us this year something more than a mere detached notice, independently of their connection with art. All the world knows that we are indebted for them to the Germans; and, as in most other instances, where we have borrowed from the inventions of strangers, we have improved them beyond all hope of foreign competition. It is to Mr. Akermann that the British public is indebted, for the first successful attempt at introducing them into this country.