Cassell's Magazine. (Cassell and Co. 5s.)—An old favourite this, which
certainly gives as much for its modest price as any one can expect. Mr. F. W. Walker, who undoubtedly knows what he is talking about, opens the volume with an account of the Territorials. Among the other contents we notice a humorous sketch by Mr. Pett Ridge ; a story which introduces a variety of the "detective" genus, "Lady Molly of Scotland Yard," which is prefaced by Mr. A. B. Cooper's " Women as Detectives " ; a paper by Mr. Charles Tibbets on Krupp's great factory of war implements; and an account of the new Canadian Transcontinental Railway, which is to cost £20,000,000 (not a third, by the way, of the capital of one of our "heavy" lines). It is very difficult to choose out of articles themselves well chosen. We must not forget to mention "Changes in the Royal Navy." The sailor of to-day is half, or more than half, an engineer.—From the same publishers we have received another annual volume which seems admirably suited for the public for whom it is meant, The Girls' Realm Annual (8s.) This same "Realm" has pretty wide borders, and the art of the thing is to keep the width without losing the distinctive character. There is much of course that might appeal to any reader, and some things that are special: what girls do, or ought to do—see Miss Alice Corkran's very instructive "Chats with the Girl of the Period "—or might do. Here is a new occupation for women : " Trained Nurses for Dogs " !—Another annual volume in which we are sere to find much good matter is Herbert Strang's Annual (H. Prowde and Hodder and Stoughton, 3s. 6d. net). It is divided in something like equal portions between fiction and fact. There are some stories, historical and other, the editor himself contributing one of the time of Henry of Navarre ; and there are papers on current topics, Mr. J. Owen writing about aeroplanes, &c., under the heading of "The Conquest of the Air," and Mr. Langles Bullock on " Wireless Telegraphy." " The Quest of the South Pole," by Richard Stead, deals with a subject which is now to the fore. The same, perhaps, may be said of the paper, " Bedroom Shooting," in which Captain Mathew shows us how we may make ourselves good shots by practice at home.
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