Good Words. Edited by Donald Macleod, D.D. (Isbister and Co.)—The
Sunday Magazine. Edited by the Rev. Benjamin Waugh. (Same publishers.)—These two annual volumes are as good as usual. In the first, the chief serial stories are Mr. B. L. Farjeon's " Basil and Annette " and " The Last of the Fenwickes," by Miss Helen Shipton. There is also a series of " Biographical and Historical Papers," having for their subjects, among others, Robert Browning, Cardinal Newman, Professor Elmalie, and John G. Paton,—this last one of the most notable of modern mission- aries. Professor Flint contributes a sot of essays that can hardly fail to be useful, coming as they do from so sound and sober a thinker, on " Socialism." Mr. Gladstone's papers on " The Im- pregnable Rock of Holy Scripture," have been already noticed in various ways. Professor Ball, well known for his skill in popu- larising science, writes about the "Sun." A series of "Sunday Readings " must not be forgotten. We notice among the authors the names of Professor Marcus Dods, Archdeacon Farrar, the Rev. Harry Jones, and Bishop Boyd Carpenter. It is the plan, both of this magazine and its fellow, to give their readers a comparatively small number of papers, but to allow their writers specs enough for an adequate treatment of their subjects. The two chief serial fictions in the Sunday Magazine, "Maitland of Laurieston," by Miss Annie S. Swan, and " Rex Raynor, Artist," by Mr. Silas K. Hocking, have already been separately noticed in these columns. The excellent set of papers of which we have spoken more than once with well-deserved praise, "Sunday Evenings for the Children," is continued. The editor, who finds this one of the branches of his life-work in helping children, contributes six out of the twelve. We may also mention a contribu- tion by the Bishop of Bedford on " The East End ;" three papers on " Theatre Children," by theArchbishop of Canterbury, Mrs.
Fawcett, and the editor (all three writers are agreed in con- demning the employment of children in theatres) ; others by Archdeacon Farrar, on "Saints and Worthies of the Middle Ages ;" " Papers on Nature," contributed by " Darley Dale " and Miss Agnes Giberne, and the Rev. B. G. Johns, among others. In "The Children of the Highways," Mrs. L. T. Meade commends to the readers of the magazine the admirable labours of Mr. Smith of Coalville.
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