We have received the annual volumes of the twin-magazines pub-
lished by the Religious Tract Society, for Sunday and week-day reading respectively, the Sunday at Home and the Leisure Hour. The former contains two principal serial stories, "Barbara's Brothers," by Evelyn Everett Green, and " Genevihvel or, the Children of Port Royal," by the Author of" The Spanish Brothers." Short biographies, natural history, "Notes on the Revised Version of the Bible," some articles on " Welsh Hymn-Writers," and a number of more directly theological matters, go to make up a collection of varied reading excellently adapted for its purpose.—In the Leisure Hour," Phayre Fenton," by Tighe Hopkins, and "Something to his Advantage," by the Rev. T. S. Millington, are the chief serials. "A Gallery of Illustrious Characters "—(might we except to including Theodore Hook in a claw distinguished by this epithet ?)—is illustrated by some curious portraitaketches. Among other articles, we may specify "The Every-Day Life of a Sailor," "Notes on Current Science," "Abraham Lincoln," "Christopher Smart" (suggested by Mr. Browning's " Parleyings"). The illustrations are, for the most part, of good quality. "A Map of Richmond Park Anno D. 1637" is eurioas.
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