found to disappoint them by its contents. These seem admirably
adapted for young readers. The serial stories are "Uncle Silvio's Secret," by H. Atteridge, and "Freda's Conquest," by Frederick Macdonald, whose entertaining "Pink and Pearl" many of our readers will remember. "Fanciful Rhymes," with pictures to match, chats about animals, puzzles of various kinds, and a mis- cellaneous collection of things too numerous and varied to
enumerate, make up the volume. The illustrations are good.—For younger children we have The Children's Treasury of Pictures and Stories. (Nelson and Sons.)—This is not a magazine, but a
genuine annual. Among the papers is a curious story of "How Old Major Preached a Sermon." The family had stopped at home one very cold Sunday, partly out of consideration for their horse. But the horse broke his halter and went to church without them. But, according to one view, he never ought to have been taken at all. The illustrations are, for the most part, of considerable merit.
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