not easily estimated—equal to itself. There is fiction of a
sound and wholesome kind ; sport of various kinds is duly noticed ; mechanical work is duly represented, as, for instance, when Mr.
Douglas tells ire "how I made a motor-boat," and Mr. G. H.
Bailey relates the less exciting adventure of making a punt—we should counsel the second adventure in preference to the first.
Various collectors will find hints and help. The simply amusing is not neglected. We are glad to see that the "Boy Scouts" movement is reeognieed.—The Girl's Own Annual (same publishers, 8s.) is under the guidance of a new editor, and opens with a well-merited tribute to the services rendered by Mr. Charles Peters, who had the control for twenty-eight years. We have said more than once that the magazine seemed to be well adapted to its purpose. At the first glance we see the difference between it and its companion. Shall we say that it is "more nicely got up" ?—only we would not be understood to imply anything disparaging of tho other. Let it suffice to apply to its appearance Qualem decet esse sororunt. The contents, too, seem to be well suited. Of course there is a specially feminine element,—whatever letters and knowledge may have been to Sulpicia (an elegiac poetess, we may say in passing), she was always nicely culta. Perhaps girls will be more ready to read theit brothers' magazine than the brothers to read theirs ; but wir can complain? It is the tendency of things just now.—The Religious Tract-Society sends us the annual volumes of several magazine; for which it is recommendation enough that they bear its name. These arranged in order of age are The Child's Companion (1s. 6d.), the eighty-sixth issue ; Light on the Home and Tract Magazine (is.), nearly coeval, as it first appeared in January, 1824; Little Dots, Vol. XXIII. (1s, 6d.) ; and Friendly Greetings (2s.6d.), of which we can say only that it is the "sixth volume of a new series."--We may mention with these Blackie's Children's Annual (Blackie and Son, 3s. 6d.) ; the Herald of Mercy Annual (Morgan and Scott, 1s.) ; and The Cottager and Artisan (R.T.S., 1s.)
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