2 DECEMBER 1922, Page 52

THE BOY'S OWN ANNUAL. (R.T.S. 13s.)

The Boy's Own Annual is poor as compared with the girl's. Tales of wild adventure alternate with sentimental school stories. There is far too much about great, stern head-masters and young villains and saints in the one, and "demoniacal laughter,' "death in the pot" madmen, and the "glistening coils" of convenient serpents in the other. We turn with relief to some instructive papers on photography and how to build a model yacht.