Of the annual volumes of magazines intended for youne readers
we have the usual abundant supply. It is really impes. sible, even if it were a thing to be desired, to discriminate or make comparisons between them. Generally, we may say that there is a really surprising excellence in both the reading and the pictures. Happy, possibly too happy, children of to-day, when we compare their abundance with the very scanty measure cf entertainment that was dealt out to their predecessors of sixty years ago ! From the Religious Tract Society we have Light in the Home, with its more distinctly religious purpose (as shown by its Scripture exercises, texts arranged for each day, dtc.); The Child's Companion, for elder children; and Our Little Dot , intended, as its title indicates, for the younger. From the Sunday School Union we have The Child's Own Magazine, .very good in its way ; but why not only prizes, possible unavoidable, but also photographs cf the prize-winners ? Messrs. Clarke send us The Rosebud Annual (4s.), an old friend—we see this volume is the twenty-first—and as good as ever, with its unfailing fun. The cat is evidently a prime favourite with those who wield pen and pencil for the Rosebud, and they do that delightful animal justice. From Messrs. Cassell and Co. we have received Little Folks, for older, and Tiny Tots, for younger children, both good in their way. We mention separately Friendly Greetings (R.T.S.), as intended for older readers, a very serviceable magazine with specially good coloured illustrations.
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