The Girl's Own Annual. (56 Paternoster Row.)—It is needless to
say much about the annual volume of the well-known Girl's Own Paper. There is the usual imposing list of writers and artists, and the usual variety of reading suited to entertain or to interest, or, it may be, to do both at once. Everywhere, as far as we have had the opportunity of examining its pages, we have found wholesome matter of good literary quality. We see the editor discourages polo, which indeed is game for Princes, and football. Cricket she approves, but why "especially if a graceful girl" P Grace comes with free and active movements of the limbs. At the risk of displeasing fair readers we must own that we would gladly see a modification of the ball used in ladies' cricket. As to the bicycle, Dr. Schofield expresses his dissatisfaction with the usual form of seat. We are glad to see plenty of instruction about cookery and needlework. We have not found scholarship or athleticism in women interfere with either the taste or the capacity for these employments.
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