8 APRIL 1893, Page 25

It is virtually impossibl ) to say anything fresh of

a magazine which maintains so uniform a standard of excellence as the Boy's Own Paper, and to which such well-known writers as M. Jules Verne, Mr. Talbot Baines Reed, and Mr David Ker regularly con- tribute. " Tom, Dick, and Harry," in which as usual Mr. Talbot Baines Reed depicts English public-school life, is fuller of purely sensational incidents than most of his stories. It is fuller also, perhaps, of boys' slang, such as " jolly," " back seat," &c. The comic illustrations of the Boy's Own Paper have decidedly improved of late, while nothing has fallen off.