The Rapid Review. (C. A. Pearson. 6d.)—We welcome the first
number of this review. The scheme of the magazine is a combination of original articles, and quotations and abstracts from magazines and newspapers. The fact that it is thus largely an anthology of periodical literature will make the magazine specially valuable to travellers and residents on the Continent and in the Colonies. They will be able by means of the Rapid Review to get a very fair general notion of what is being said in the monthly, and even weekly, publications in England. The illustrations are bright, interesting, and numerous, and there are some good maps and diagrams. If, then, the Rapid Review achieves in subsequent numbers the same standard of merit that it has achieved in the first, it will prove a success. Our only criticism is that too anxious an attempt has been made at concentration, and that the extracts are, therefore, not long enough. It would have been better to treat fewer subjects more fully than to try to get in "a bit of everything." This, however, is a defect which can soon be cured, and we do not wonder that in a first number the process of selection has not been sufficiently carried out.
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