We gladly make our annual acknowledgment of Sunday magazines which
now appear collected in volumes. From the Religions Tract Society we get The Leisure Hour and The Sunday at Home, of which we can do little more than repeat the now familiar phrase that they contain abundance of good reading. The Sunday at Home well performs its very difficult task of furnishing young people with what is appropriate, without being wearisome. It may be confidently recommended on this score. Its fellow. magazinetakes a wider range of subjects, but though its pur- pose is secular, it is not the less instructive and excellent in tone.—Cassell's Family Magazine (Cassell and Co.), with its par- ticularly attractive paper and print, its stories, long and short, sketches of foreign places, practical papers (as those on " Remunera- tive Employment for Women"), poetry, music, and all the miscel- laneous variety which it is quite impossible to classify, is as enter- taining as ever.—We have also received Our Darlings, edited by Dr. Bernardo (Shaw and Co.), and telling us much about the good work to which the editor has devoted himself, and about kindred subjects, besides giving a great variety of useful and entertaining reading ; and Little Wide-Awake, by Mrs. Sale Barker (Routledge and Sons), "a Coloured Annual for Children," and suiting them, we should say, admirably, both by letterpress and pictures.
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