The Boy's Own Annual. (Boy's Own Paper Office. 8s.) — If it
is difficult to say anything new of this annual volume, the cause is not to be found in any lack of variety, we might even say novelty, in its contents. Fiction there is, of course, with abundance of adventure by land and sea, and articles about games, indoor and outdoor (a " chess " column, with space occa- sionally given to draughts, is a regular feature), about mechanical work, travel, and scores of other things. Every taste should find something suited to it. The illustrations are abundant ; among them we notice one that represents all the academical hoods worn by graduates of Great Britain and Ireland a gorgeous display that may possibly move even some Arcadicus invenis to ambitious effort.—Another excellent periodical, intended sub- stantially for the same clientele, is Young England (57-59 Ludgate Hill, 5s.), "an illustrated magazine for boys throughout the English-speaking world." We need not do more than repeat the commendation which we have often before given to it. It has reached, we see, its twenty-fifth year.
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