20 DECEMBER 1884, Page 21

Routledge's Every Girl's Annual, edited by Miss Alicia A. Leith

(Rontledge and Sons), is another favourite magazine which hardly requires our commendation. Fiction has its place in it, but does not usurp the whole. The useful is carefully considered, especially in a series of valuable papers on "Town and Country Pleasures and Pursuits." What service, for instance, might not a girl who should learn the art of bookbinding render to a literary or studious father who finds it quite as much as he can do to buy books, without any talk of binding them !