The Boy's Own Annual and The Girl's Own Annual (56
Paternoster Row), are republications in handsome volumes of two weekly papers devoted to the interests of boys and girls respectively. We have commended them often before, and readily do so again. The functions of the two are as much discriminated as they should be ; the volume for girls being, as it doubtless should be, more boyish than that for boys is girlish. Still, there is a difference, and this, • we think, of about the right amount. In the Boy's Annual, Mr. J. Munro tells the story of "The Wire and the Wave : a Tale of the Submarine Telegraph," and so somewhat of a novelty; the Rev. A. N. Malan contributes the tale of "Uncle Tovrser ;" while from the pen of Mr. David Ker we have "For Life and Death : a Tale of Northern India," and "The Lost Expedition : a Story of Western Africa."—In the Girl's Annual, the chief serials are : "Kathleen's Handful," by the author of "The Atelier du Lys ; " and " Aldyth's Inheritance," by Eglanton Thorne. Girls seem to be less eager for fiction than their brothers. Their favourite pursuits and amusements admit, it may be, of more literary treatment than do those of their brothers. The miscellaneous contents of both volumes defy classification or description.
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