30 OCTOBER 1886, Page 21

The Quiver. Vol. XXI. (Cassell and Oo.)—The serial story of

this volume is" The Heir of Sandford Towers." It is not, however, a

disadvantage in the Quiver that fiction is not made so prominent a feature as in some other magazines that are intended "for Sunday and general reading." The variety of profitable and interesting matter that is collected in these 764 pages is quite surprising. The volume should serve its purpose excellently. What did not the boys and girls of forty years ago, under a stricter rule, and with little or nothing to read, suffer