The Boy's Illustrated Annual. (Sampson Low and Co.)—We have in
this year's Annual serial stories by Manville Fenn, J. A. Steuart, Eugene Mouton, of adventures in Africa, and travel and adventure in various parts of the globe, full of, strange creatures and moving incidents. Mr. Henty writes of the Australian Bush, Mr. Robert Barr has a clever story entitled " Our Own Correspondent," R. D. Chetwode tells a tale of strange adventure called "The Marble City," and Frank Cowper has written a tale of the sea, called "The Hunting of the Auk." "Captured by the Navajos" is an Indian story by a captain in the United States Army, and therefore a more realistic effort than the tales writers concoct out of their imagination and furnish with unlifeliko details. There are some practical articles in The Boy's Illustrated Annual, and also some interesting natural history chapters and miscellaneous articles on hunting and life in far countries. Some notes on fishing, and a variety of short paragraphs on every conceivable subject, with numerous little anecdotes and jokes after the manner of Tit - Rite, make up a very fairly average number. The Boy's Illus- trated Annual, generally known as Boys, we loam i from the preface,. has appeared for the last time; henceforth, it will be incorporated in the Boy's Own Paper. Such a change will be mutu ally advan- tageous, though the Boy's Own Paper could not be well improved, even if it became larger. Boys, though maintaining a fair standard,
cannot, for its quality, be placed in the same class with its con- temporaries ; still, it has done good, and we congratulate the editor on its amalgamation with a magazine the excellence of which is undeniable, the position of which, at the head of its contemporaries, undisputed.
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