Chatterbox, 1912. (Wells Gardner, Dorton and Co. 3s. ; cloth
5s.)—This venerable children's magazine keeps up its old traditions without lagging behind the times in such matters as coloured illustrations. There is a serial schoolboy story and other fiction, chiefly adventurous, many instructive articles and puzzle columns. It is copiously illustrated with plain and coloured pictures.— Sunday, 1912. (Same publishers and price.)—The literature specially provided for the Sunday reading of children a generation or two ago was not so light and attractive as this. There is a serial story of Canadian settlement and warfare in the seventeenth century, and much other jam to ease the swallowing of the moral and religious pills, which indeed are not devoid of their own attractive simplicity.—Young England. (The Pilgrim Press. 5s.)—This is another old-established annual for rather older children than the readers of Chatterbox. It contains the usual fiction and instructive articles.—Our Empire. (S. P. C. K. 28. 6d.)—A new rival appears here, as the 1912 volume is the first. It is more particularly intended for Sunday-school children, but promises plenty of secular attraction.—Chums, 1912. (Cassell and Co. 8s.)—This penny weekly paper makes up a large annual volume in which fiction for boys predominates. — Cassell's Annual (same publishers, 3s. 6d.) is for younger children. Dolls and comic animals are the chief characters, with stories and Illustrations.
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