Sunday. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co. 3s. and 5s.)— "
Sunday Reading for the Young" is the full title of this magazine, and it is a title which is well justified by its contents. The limits which the word " Sunday " implies are, as we all know, somewhat extended now when we compare them with what were enforced half-a-century ago. Of course they are not and cannot be distinctly defined, and it is a good teat of an editor's discretion to
see how he keeps to them. Sunday seems to answer these require- ments well Besides matter directly connected with Scripture, we have history, Nature-lore, scenes from life, somehow pointing a moral, and a great collection of judiciously chosen miscellanea.— From the same publishers we have also received Chatterbox (5s. and 3s.), an old favourite, to which we gladly extend again our annual welcome. It has now, we think, passed its fortieth year, and we wish it many happy returns. It has many merits, but the illustrations, as we have had occasion to observe before, are of peculiar excellence. There is a general rise in this respect, but Chatterbox keeps its place. —The Prize (2s.), also from the same publishers, is on a smaller scale and for somewhat younger children, very good of its kind, and well suited to its purpose. The pictures deserve a special word of praise.—With these we may mention Animal Playtime (James Clarke and Co., ls.), full of comic animals, which Mr. Louis Wain and others are good enough to picture for us.
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