31 DECEMBER 1887, Page 24

The Welcome : a Magazine for the Nome Circle (S.

W. Partridge), appears in its fourteenth annual volume. Here the reader will find Mrs. Oliphant's story of "Cousin Mary." There are four other aerial stories of various lengths, and a number of short tales. Travel, Ac., is well represented, as is also biography, among the subjects of the latter being Bishop Hannington, Emin Pasha, Lord Iddesleigh, Thoreau, and Lord Shaftesbury. The magazine is a good one to read, and amply illustrated.—We have also to acknowledge the annual issue of the Church-Worker. (Church of England Sunday-School Institute.) Its principal object is to provide help and •suggestions for teachers in Sunday-Sobools.