The Boy's Own Annual (4 Bouverie Street, 8s.) is now
in its thirtieth year ; The Girl's Own Annual (same publishing office, 8s.) does not state its age. We seem to remember the two as a par amabile for a considerable time. We see names of contributors in both that are sufficient guarantees of good work,— in The Boy's Own Annual, those of T. Bevan, A. L. Knight, Oliver Pike, Dr. Gordon Stables, &c. We note also that Mr. G. H. S. Trott, who once captained the Australian Eleven, has something that should be instructive to say about "fielding." Athletics of every kind are duly treated. (Can a schoolboy record of ten seconds for one hundred yards be correct ?) So are natural history, sport, photography, and other things in which the healthy-minded boy may be expected to take an interest. Among the writers in The Girl's Own Annual are Mrs. de Horne Vaizey, Mrs. Weigall, Miss Annie G. Hopkins, Miss Mary Bradford Whiting, Miss Mabel ' Quiller-Couch, and Dr. Gordon Stables again. The contents of ' the volume seem to be judiciously varied.
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