The Quiver. (Cassell and Co.)—This "illustrated magazine for Sunday and
general reading" keeps up to its standard very well. Besides the usual element of fiction of the more serious kind there is a series of papers on Sundays with various Royalties. They seem to set a good example. Dr. Hugh Macmillan con- tributes =Coles on natural history subjects, and there are in- teresting descriptions of various charitable works, eminent per- sonages in Church and State, and other men and matters. Of the more directly didactic papers we may mention a series by Arch- deacon Sinclair on "Spiritual Dangers," sensible and plain-spoken. " General " Booth writes an account of the Salvation Army, giving an idea, which probably very few of his readers will have had before, of its far-reaching organisation. Fault-finding is commonly out of place when so much that is good has necessarily to be passed over with but the briefest notice or no notice at all, but we may venture to object to the "Archdeacon's Sister." The sister is what is called a "ghost," i.e., she does the work, in other words, writes the sermons, for which the Archdeacon obtains a high reputation for piety and eloquence. It is possible, scarcely probable, certainly not edifying.
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