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Friendly Work. Edited by M. E. Townsend. (Wells Gardner, Darton,

and Co.)—Friendly Leaves. Edited by Henley L. Arden. (Same publishers.)—These periodicals are published in the interest of the " Girls' Friendly Society," and contain much that concerns that most useful association. Apart from this, they have some ex- cellent matter in them, witness, in the first, Miss Christabel Cole- ridge's charming story, "A Pair of Old Shoes," which we have noticed elsewhere ; and, in the second, Mrs. O'Reilly's " The Sound of the Streets."—With these may be mentioned The Church- worker. Vol. XI. (Church of England Sunday School Institute).