The Sunday at Home. (R.T.S.)—Two serial stories by "Leslie Keith"
and Mrs. E. E. Green represent fiction in this year's volume. Descriptive papers on Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Chichester, Wells Cathedral, El-Azhar Mosque of Cairo. the Buddhas of Japan, will show that the historical element is not neglected. With these similar papers an excellent series of fifteen articles on different almshouses must be mentioned. The letterpress is by Mrs. E. Brewer, and the illustrations are by A. R. Quinton and other artists. There are some half-dozen papers which have this year of Diamond Jubilee for their subject. To these articles one might well add the article on the missionaries of the nineteenth century, illustrated by fifty-four portraits,-.-.a splendid gallery of heroes and martyrs ! The biographical sketches include Mrs. Rundle-Charles, Cowper, Mr. Gladstone, Jean lngelow, Arch- bishop Magee, George Tinworth, and Melanchthon, and, in short form, the fifty-four missionaries described by Mr. Lovett. There is a very hearty and appreciative memoir of the Rev. Frederick Wigram, till this year the indefatigable secretary of the Church Missionary Society; he might well be added to the long list given above. A large selection of poetry never fails to appear in the Sunday at Home, among which, with other names, we see those of Palgrave and Langbridge. The Scriptural papers are by the Rev. G. S. Barrett, the Rev. Dr. Monro Gibson, the Rev. J. R. Vernon, and others, one of whom, the Rev. F. W. Newland, has a series of four articles entitled "Ten Years in East London." There are a number of miscellaneous short stories with plenty of local colouring in them, and articles of historical, as well as social, interest, such as " Jewish Life in the Middle Ages," "The Queen and the Society of Friends," and others. The illustra- tions to the descriptive articles are as good as ever, and the coloured plates excellent. The handwriting of three famous divines is also reproduced for us in the Rev. A. Grossart's biographies of Pearson, Barrow, and Edwards. The Sunday at Home quite keeps up its average excellence.
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