The Sun, October, 1889 — September, 1890. (Alex. Gardner, Paisley and London.)—The
Sun is a magazine which, as we have had occa- sion to observe more than once, is making for itself a good place in the periodical literature of the day. It has its chief circulation, we fancy, in Scotland, and it does credit to the tastes of readers across the Border that a substantial bill of fare such as this maga- zine offers is appreciated. Dr. George MacDonald's tale, "There and Back," supplies, as those who know his writings will easily believe, something more than fiction. The other serial story is by Mr. E. Gordon Roy, and has the title "For Better for Worse." Mr. G. Barnett Smith has four papers on "American Humorists," very readable, and bringing before the notice of the British public one or two writers of whom it does not know enough. He mentions, we see, Max Adeler, but mentions him only. Max Adder is very unequal; but "Elbow-Room" might almost have had a paper to itself. From among the other papers we may mention an account in four numbers of those strange little commonwealths, the Channel Islands, by Mr. Louis Barb& Sark, for instance, governed by a council consisting of the Seigneur and forty householders, is a survival as strange as the Republic of • Andorra, and possibly more likely to endure. Its contribution of a shilling or so per annum to the Imperial Exchequer is about as low a price to pay for practical independence as can well be imagined. Other papers are : "A Group of Eminent Women," by Elspeth A. Barzia; "Science Afoot," by W. Anderson Smith ; "In the Youth of the World," by Alex. H. Japp ; and "Studies from the Romance of History," by C. G. Farley and C. O'Connor Eccles.
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