13 JANUARY 1877, Page 24

We always find it difficult to criticise Good Words and

the Sunday Magazine, and the January numbers present the ordinary obstacles. The contents of both are perfectly unexceptionable, " always good alike," in fact, and the illustrations are nearly all of them excellent. We may note that Mrs. Macquoid's story of " Doris Baugh" begins now in Good Words, and that the Rev. Canon Thorold begins a series of papers on " Married Life " in the Sunday Magazine, though we have found the present instalment a trifle dull.