ANNUALS.
Tax Boy's Own Annual (14s. 6c1. net) shows us that the Boy's Own Paper in its forty-third year is still as full as ever of good stories, interesting articles and attractive pictures. Among the longer stories, Captain Charles Gilson's The Wizard King and The ShadoW on the School by Mr. Frank Elias may be. commended. One of the coloured plates gives fifteen of the new national flags, which are unknown to most readers.— The Girl's Own Annual, edited by Miss Flora Klickmann (14s. 6d. net), is the bound volume of the Girl's Own Paper, which is nearly as old and which is just as good in its way as the boy's journal. It is intended for the older girls and for young women, and includes, besides fiction and articles on dressmaking, lace and so forth, many pleasant discourses on literary and social topics, with an abundance of capital illustrations. The tone of the magazine is excellent. The editress pays her readers the compliment of supposing that they are thoughtful and sincere, and she is, we are sure, well rewarded by their appreciation.—Another and still older favourite is the Sunday at Home (R.T.S., 14s. 6d. net), the bound volume of which will interest all young people. We are glad to find in it an article on " The Plague of Slang," by Mr. Harold Murray, who pleads very sensibly for " a cam- paign for pure speech."—A slighter book, specially written for Girl Guides, is The Girl Guide's Book, edited by Miss M. C. Carey (Pearson's, 6s. net). It is an agreeable miscellany of stories, articles, poems and hints on games and camp-life.
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