7 APRIL 1888, Page 23

There is a want of life about the Sunday Magazine

for April, although the serial stories by Dr. George MacDonald and Mr. Farjeon are readable, and Archdeacon Farrar is suiting his papers on the Catacombs admirably to the intelligence of young people. Surely "A. K. H. B." presents us with his very thinnest gold-leaf of moralisation in "A Little Overdone," which should have been styled "Sadly Underdone."