Young England (57 Ludgate Hill, 5s.) is described as "an
illus- trated magazine for boys throughout the English-speaking world." Here, too, we are glad to see that the competition bribe can be dispensed with, not without success, for this volume is the twenty-seventh. That the matter is well chosen should go very far, and that this is the case it is soon easy to see. Here are stories of soldiers and sailors, of pioneers in the wilderness, and of those to whom "the front" means the dangerous duty of a missionary's work. The miscellanea are especially good. One charming anecdote of Sidney Cooper we must take leave to repro- duce. He began life as a poor lad in Canterbury, and he had to draw on his slate for want of other materials. He was sketching the Cathedral when he made the acquaintance of an artist who was busy with the same object. They sketched side by side for some days. When the artist went away he gave the lad his pencils, twelve in number. But he had no knife with which to sharpen them. After vainly trying to do so on a stone, he asked n passer-by to lend him a knife. The passer-by was the Arch- bishop ; the giver of the pencils was Cattermole.
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