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Lads' Drill Association : Annual Report. (17 Victoria Street, S.W.)—We

need hardly say that the objects of this Associa- tion are to make as nearly universal as may be the physical and the moral training which are to be attained by drill. We cannot attempt to put into a small compass what it has done and what it aims at doing. The movement is making its way in the Colonies ; but, of course, it is in this country, with its crowded cities and general conditions of life, so oppressive to the poor classes, that it is most imperatively needed. Whatever ultimate ends may be served by it, there is an immediate gain in this dis- cipline, gain to body and to soul. We heartily recommend to our readers this account of the operations of the Lads' Drill Association.