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Lillie Wide-Awake. Edited by Mrs. Sale Barker. (Routledge and Sons.)—We welcome the appearance of this old friend and favourite of the children. The young people like it, we find, as- well as any—and it must be allowed that they have plenty of choice nowadays. Nor can we wonder. There is good reading, suited for various ages, in both the character of the matter and also of the type,—a point of no little importance. Young people want large print as much as old ones. Then the illustrations are
excellent. The editor keeps up, we are glad to see, her sub- scribers' kindly interest in a " Little Wide-Awake Cot." We
commend Little Wide-Awake heartily to all who may not have made acquaintance with it.—Another annual volume must not be forgotten—but we cannot remember whether we have seen it before —The Little Ones' Own Beehive (Dean and Son). Here also there- are many good things, both reading and pictures.—Onward and Upward (Partridge and Co.) is a magazine for older readers. It •
describes itself as " The Journal of the Haddo House Associa- tion." This Association is described in the first number by the Countess of Aberdeen (who is the editor of the periodical). Its object is to form a bond of union between working women, married or single, and their employers, and in fact all who are ready to take an interest in them. This is but an imperfect description of its objects, and we must refer readers to the magazine itself.
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