Good Words. Edited by Donald Macleod, D.D. (Isbister and Co.
7s. Gd.)—The Sunday Magazine. (Same publishers. is. 64.1.)— Good Words is content with one serial, " A Daughter of the Sea," by Amy Le Feuvre ; among the short stories we see the names of Frank T. Bullen and Harold Bindloss, and of others who may be relied upon to give good work. In the department of " Litera- ture " there is a new departure in the shape of "Open Letters to Living Authors." These are the results of competitions for prizes, and no little success seems to have been attained. There is evidently more power of competent criticism ready to be called for than some people are willing to allow. The Bishop of Ripon contributes a series of papers on the Epistle of St. James, in which the characteristics of that remarkable document are pointed out with much insight ; the observation, for instance, of Nature and of human nature. There are, as usual, in- structive papers on science. In the province of history there are eleven papers, one of them, appropriate enough for the year, on "The King's Champion," by the Rev. J. H. T. Perkins, who might have added some interesting particulars about the Dymoke family if he had consulted Canon Lodge's book on Scrivelsby and its owners. The recent history of the Champion family has been remarkable, one notable incident being that the holder of the title some thirty years ago loft all the gold cups to Queen Victoria, and that she, with characteristic good taste, gave them back to his successor. The volume contains various Corona- tion odes which have been already noticed in the Spectator.—The Blindly Magazine always manages, we think, to fulfil its function with a nice discrimination of what is becoming. Among its varied contents we observe a paper which must have been one of the latest productions of Mr. Hugh Price Hughes. It is a review of an abridged edition of Wesley's Journal. Mr. Hughes did not, we imagine, contribute the very curious paragraph in which Dr. Anderson's defence of the Book of Daniel is highly commended. Surely of all bizarre notions that of submitting such a question to a Judge and jury is the most bizarre. What a tribunal to decide on the essentiul question of Prophecy r. Pre- diction ! Photography is, we see, a strong point of the Sunday Magazine. This volume contains a most interesting series of portraits, and there are, as usual, "Curiosities of the Camera." Another valuable item which we are glad to see repeated is "Evenings with the Children." Dr. Waugh, who used to furnish these papers in so admirable a way, is otherwise engaged for his young clients. There is a good portrait of him on p. 186, with the significant statement in a note that the Society of which he is Director has in seventeen years rescued "over seven hundred thousand children from cruelty and neglect."
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