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Before He is Twenty. (Ward, Lock, and Bowden.)—This volume contains

five essays by different authors on "five perplexing phases of the boy question." Mr. R. J. Bardette considers the question of parental management and discipline ; Mrs. F. Hodg- son Burnett, the choice of occupation ; Mr. E. W. Bok, the boy in business ; Mrs. Burton Harrison. his amusements ; and Mrs. Leyman Abbot, "Looking Toward a Wife,"—surely, considering the title of the book, a little previous. If it was "Before He is Thirty," we might expect it. The reader will find the volume worth reading. All of it is the outcome of experience and an honest attempt to give help.—By way of supplement, we may commend to our readers Religion in Boyhood ; or, Hints on the Religious Training of Boys, by the Rev. Ernest B. Layard (Methuen).