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The Sunday Magazine. Edited by the Rev. B. Waugh. (Isbister and Co.)—We have half-a-dozen serial stories by well- known writers in this yearly volume. The names of Annie S. Swan, Emilie Searchfield, and others, are sufficient attraction for the reader. There is an interesting series of papers on the painters of various great truths, which include Watts, and his most spiritual pictures, in two articles with nine illustrations, and Burns-Jones as the Painter of Eternal Youth, in two articles and eleven illustrations. Sermons by the Rev. W. J. Foxall, the Editor, the late Samuel Cox, the Rev. J. W. Horsley, Julia Wedgwood, and others. Biographical notices and interviews with Canon Atkinson, the Bishop of Ripon, Mrs. L. T. Meade, Mrs. Burnett Smith (Annie S. Swan), add a personal element of great interest to many readers. Then we have descriptive papers on Worcester Cathedral, by Canon Shore; on Bishopthorpe, by Precentor Ventables ; on Dartmouth, by the Rev. S. Baring- Gould ; on St. Alban's Abbey, by Canon Liddell and John Knox ; and St. Giles, by the Rev. T. Harris. Among the miscellaneous articles we may mention those on " Calabria," " Crimean Ports," " A Thousand Miles up the Irrawaddy," " The Tai Mahal," " Matabeleland," and " The Tel El-Amarna Tablets." Arch- deacon Farrar, we must add, discourses on "Early British Christianity." There are also some thirty pieces of poetry. The illustrations are good, particularly the drawings in the articles describing the great ecclesiastical buildings, and the reproduc- tions of Watts's and Burns-Jones's works are fairly successful.
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