Cassell's Saturday Journal (Cassell and Co.) is, we see, a
new venture. The volume, in which the year's issue is collected, is of a goodly size, and certainly contains a vast amount of various enter- taining reading. We found ourselves spending more time over it than the numerous claims of the season could well allow (must we confess that we do not read quite all the big volumes which the pub- lishers are kind enough to send us about this time ?) Its funny stories and sayings, its fiction, its miscellaneous articles, containing, by the way, not a few promising first efforts by prize-winners, will furnish entertainment for many hours of amusement to happy people who have leisure.—From the same publishers we also receive The Quiver, an old-established magazine (the volume before us is numbered the nineteenth), which scarcely needs our recommendation. It is in- tended for " Sunday and general reading." There is some fiction of a serious kind ; but the greater part of the articles have a religious tendency, with a special direction, for which we have nothing but praise, in the way of practical philanthropy.
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