The Boys' Own Annual (Boys' Own raper Office), with more
than eight hundred closely-printed triple-columned pages, carries out very thoroughly in its contents the motto of the paper (of which it is the yearly issne)—quidquid agunt pueri nostri est farrago libelli. Sport and earnest are duly mingled together. Every month, for instance, has a seasonable article on its appropriate fish- ing; cricket, of course, vindicates its pre-eminence. On the other hand, there are narratives of the serious work of the world, missions, and so forth ; and there is the element of regular fiction. Among the contributors' names we notice those of Jules Verne, H. C. Adams, David Ker, Gordon Stables, to mention a few out of many. May we venture to doubt a statement that the present Bishop of Southwell was captain of the Winchester eleven in 1844. It was, we believe, an elder brother. Dr. Ridding did not leave Winchester till 1847.
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