Sunday Reading for the Young. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.
5s.)—There are good things in this annual volume, but they are not all shown to advantage. It would be better, we should think, not to have a serial story running through tl:e year into nearly fifty snippets. Generally there are too many things for the space. Of the illustrations, however, we may speak with un- mixed praise.The Girl's Own Paper appears, as usual, in its yearly volume as The Girl's Own Anneal (56 Paternoster Row, 84.) it is well suited, we should say, as far as we have been able to examine it, to its audience ; nor, indeed, is this the first time that we have had the pleasure of commending it to the notice of our readers. It appears to combine with no common skill the utile and the dulce. Might we venture, however, to suggest that the figures on P. 329, in "How a Girl Should Dress," have preposterously small waists ? A magazine of such standing should not condescend to fashion - plates. For the most i;art the illustrations are good. — The Girl's Realm Annual (S. H. Bonsfield and Co., 8s.) appears under the same conditions. It is a periodical publication collected in a yearly volume. So much pains is taken with magazines in general, that we have seldom anything but praise t3 give, and praise is necessarily monotonous. It is only fair, however, to remark that the Girl's Realm is specially good. The list • of contributors is nothing less than remarkable, and the contents are worthy of the list. It is impossible to give an account of them, but we will mention one paper which seems likely to be particularly useful, "The Wasted Wealth of the Waysides," by Phoebe Allen. It is surprising what good things are permitted to grow uselessly in our hedgerows, &c. The list of edible plants, whether for salads or as cooked vegetables, that Miss Allen gives is a very large one.
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