Cassell's Saturday Journal, October, 1891—September, 1892.
(Cassell and Co.)—Twelve hundred and forty-six closely-printed. and three columned pages make up this volume, which certainly gives a quite surprising equivalent for its moderate price. There are four serial stories (by Messrs. J. Fitzgerald Molloy, W. C. Hudson, Frank Barrett, and Dick Donovan), a " detective " story by a "Chief Constable," more than a hundred short stories, and miscellaneous papers beyond description or enumeration, among them " Editors of To-day," " Celebrities at Home," and a series of papers by Mr. R. Dowling, under the title of "While London
Sleeps."—From the same publishers we have Cassell's Family Magazine, a periodical of a somewhat different type, and intended,
we may say, without offence, for more cultured readers. There
is abundance both of fiction—the serial stories are six in number — and of fact ; for the repertoire of miscellaneous
information is as large as usual. The publishers intend to increase the size of the magazine with the year about to commence, and issue an attractive programme.—From the Religious Tract Society we have received the annual volumes of
the Leisure Hour and the Sunday at Home. We have noticed else- where Miss Leslie Keith's serial story of "In Spite of Himself," which has been running through the Leisure Hour during the past year. Among the other contents of this magazine we may notice "Notes on Current Science," and Mr. Flinders Petrie's papers on the " Romance of Ancient Literature." It is certainly stretching- a point to describe the documents of which Mr. Petrie speaks as " literature." He does, indeed, mention the newly-discovered MS. of the Iliad, but the real subjects of his articles are business docu-
ments, wills, private letters, contracts, and so forth. Of course,. these are highly interesting in their way. The wills, in particular, are very curious. Readers seem never to be tired of information about the inner machinery of the press ; accordingly, we have a series of papers on " The Great London Dailies." From the
varied contents of the Sunday at Home we may single out for
mention the biographical articles, a series of " Wanderings in the Holy Land," a series of papers, to which special attention may be called, on " Modern Discoveries and the Christian Faith"
(it should be understood that the discoveries are of a literary kind, as, e.g., the "Apology of Aristides "), and the " Sermons and Devotional Papers."—The annual volume of The Child's Pictorial (S. P. C. K.) may be commended as both useful and ornamental.
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