10 JANUARY 1891, Page 19

The volume for 1890 of The Sunday Friend, edited by

the Rev. G. H. Curtois (Mowbray and Co.), is deserving of a special word of commendation for the variety of its stories and general articles —in spite of their teaching practically the same lesson—for its bright illustrations, and, above all, for the " Children's Column," full of lively letters, in which kindness to the lower animals is enjoined by precept and example. A hint may, however, be given to the publishers of The Sunday Friend. Some of their type is too small, and the paper has too dark a look.