Chums : an Illustrated Paper for Boys. (Cassell and Co.
8s.) —Chums is as good as ever. The times have, of course, brought their changes with them. Men at the front take the as of cricketers. football-players, sprinters, and athletes generally. Then there is a serial, "Fought Out at the Front," by Mr. C. Heath Hosken, and a series of papers, "Under the Queen's Flag," though these take us to other places besides South Africa. And in the miscellaneous contents the South African business crops up again and again. All this is as it should be. At the same time, the features that make this periodical a general favourite are still to be found. Might we suggest that the bloodhound is not exactly the kind of dog which the reader would gather from one of the stories ? He follows the track of 'a fugitive, but he is not ferocious. His name does him an injustice.
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