8 OCTOBER 1881, page 18

The Magazines.

THE Contemporary for October is a very instructive number, .1eficient only in entertaining reading. It is a little too gritty with facts. We could not ourselves honestly class......

Waifs.* Lir Name Of This Small Volume Is Deceptive. "

Waif " means, properly speaking, unowned goods ; and as the word is also often associated with ideas of orphans, paupers, street-arabs, &c., it might be expected that a book......