7 APRIL 1894, Page 26

There is a great deal that is informing—about cream-cheese and

dress and brasses and piano-playing and logic, and what not —in the April number of that excellent monthly, the Girl's Own Paper. But there is a sad lack of liveliness. The articles, and even the illustrations, admirable though many of the latter more particularly are, seem calculated to set girls asleep rather than to set them a-thinking.