Sunday (Wells, Gardner, Darton, and Co.), should have an honourable
place among magazines for children. It contains two serial tales, "Jim," a story of school life, told in a lively fashion, and having an attractive little person for its hero, and "At the King's Right Hand," a tale of King Alfred's Days. This, too, is well written, and particularly well illustrated,—a praise which may fairly be extended to the whole volume. The miscellaneous contents are of good quality. We may suggest, however, that two dunces would hardly be planning a bird's-nesting expedition in July, unless they were dunces about other things than books. —Little Wide-Awake, edited by Mrs. and Miss Sale Barker (Routledge and Sons), contains two serials, " Sunnybeare " and "The Little Gipsy," and has its special department for "Very Little People." Henceforth it is, we learn from the publishers' notice, to be incorporated with Little Folks. We wish it in its new existence the prosperity and the success which it has deserved.—Our Darlings, edited by Dr. Barnard° (J. F. Shaw and Co.), always comes commended by its intrinsic merits and by the excellent work with which it is con- nected. The editor, as we have before taken occasion to remark, is sparing in his direct appeals to the sympathies of young readers. He might tell stories which would be far too harrowing. But he prepares the ground by a judicious selection of fiction and truth. Our Darlings is an excellent magazine.—From the same pub- lishers we also get Sunday Sunshine, the special purpose of which, as the editor, Miss Catharine Shaw, explains, is to help in keeping boys and girls from feeling that Sunday is a dull day ; Little Frolic, with more miscellaneous contents ; and On Land and Sea, a collection of stories of adventure. Here a word of special com- mendation may be bestowed on the illustrations.
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