The Empire Annual for Boys. Edited by A. R. Buckland,
(4 Bouverio Street. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Buckland has done his editor's work with great skill and understanding of the readers whom he addresses. There is cricket, for one thing. Most boys will turn to that first for choice. Here we have the genuine experiences of famous players. Dr. McCormick, for instance, tells us how ho came to play for Cambridge, and Robert Abel how he got into tho Surrey Eleven. This is better than the best constructed tales. We have also experiences by land and sea, perils endured, and great deeds done. There is the greatest. variety of scene, and everywhere the adventure is of a moving kind, moving, we may say, to good. We have never seen a better book of its kind.— The Empire Annual for Girls (same editor and publishers, 3s. 6d.) is also worthy of praise. As we looked through it we were reminded of a fact which may be anomalous, but still has to be reckoned with, that girl readers often prefer what is intended for their brothers to what is specially made up for themselves. It is difficult, however, to see how this is to be taken account of. Anyhow, girls ought to like their "Annual "; it is full of things that should interest them.
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