Cassell's Saturday Journal. (Cassell and Co. '75. 6d.)—This " magazine
of useful and entertaining literature" gives a supply
as varied and as copious as we have been for many years accus- tomed to find in it. The chief items are " Some Personal Reminiscences," by Mr. G. R. Sims, and "Real Stories from a Detective's Note-Book," by Mr. J. L. Beeston. Then there are interviews and "Personal Chats "—in which politicians, preachers, naturalists, and "all sorts and conditions of men" are repre- sented—short stories to be numbered by scores, and miscel- laneous items which must be counted by hundreds. We could fill columns, if we had them at command, with extracts, instruc- tive or amusing. One must suffice, not untimely, as the football season is at its height. A pavilion was to be erected on a football ground, and the architect proposed a referee's room with two windows. A member objected. A referee had lately escaped from a justly indignant crowd by a back window. That must not happen again. " One referee, one window."—The same publishers also send us Chums : an Illustrated Paper for Boys (Ss.) Stories, long and short, biographical notices of eminent persons, records of sport, items humorous and other, make up a variety suitable, as far as we have been able to examine the volume, to the readers for whom it is intended. There are many illustra- tions, the frontispiece being a fine reproduction of Mr. Eyre Crowe's "Nelson's Last Farewell to England."
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