The Boys' Own Annual is the yearly volume of the
Boys' Own Paper ; the Girls' Own Annual, of the Girls' Own Paper, and both appear under the auspices of the Religious Tract Society. Both are well-established favourites, and both appear well to deserve their position, if between eight and nine hundred closely printed, triple. columned pages, crowded with fact and fiction, the entertaining and the useful, adventure, history, mechanics, handicraft, popular science, Ac., are enough to earn the gratitude of readers. The different aim of the two is well observed, but it is nevertheless quite tree that a brother may read most of his sister's paper with pleasure and advan- tage, and the sister will probably even more fully appreciate the brother's. Both give lists of contributors and artists which are in themselves no slight guarantees of excellence.
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