The Empire Annual for Boys. (R.T.S. 3s. 6d.)—Some of the
best reading in this volume is contained in the articles—we would have welcomed more of them—dealing with actual facts con- cerning our colonies. "Famous Australian Explorers" might well have provided three or four papers. There will be few boys who will not want to know more of the men who did some of the most difficult and valuable work of the last century. Mr. Maurice Ker contributes an admirable account of the North-West Mounted Police, and recounts several picturesque anecdotes from records which, though covering loss than forty years, would be the pride of any force. The short stories of which the book is chiefly com- posed are good. Mr. Buckland has among his contributors names that speak for themselves.—The Empire Annual for Girls. (R.T.S. 3s. 6d.)—Collections of stories for girls are, we suppose, difficult to compile. Certainly they are seldom as successful as those for boys. The one before us is a fair example. The stories are of average merit, some really good—" Rosette in Peril," an excellently told episode in the war of La Vendee, to mention one. But the standard reached is by no means that of the companion volume.
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