publications of this well-known firm are popular, in every home and: the copies of their piiudipal periodicals which-we have just received are quite up to the high lit dary standard expected of them. Cassell's jazine ig as tastefully got up as ever, the illustrations, both half-tone and. sketches, being exceptionally good. At the present juncture a Klondyke romance cannot but bbe regarded as seasonable, and -the continuation of Headon Bill's... thrilling {Spectre. Gold". justifies the good. impression formed on all hands ofthe liminary chapters. Mr. B. Robertson contributes an interesting article on Stage Animals which is profusely illustrated and cleverly written. In the course thereof ho deals with the making of property" animals—''anything from a lion, to a grasshopper "—and in this connection relates the following anecdote:—state "Some people have an, antipathy to rats, and I. must confess myself amongst the number.... Hence it. happened..thab when the property-maker gave a rat a push and I saw it "glide like a curling-
floor was carpeted, and in my experience had 'ever travelled on' n carpet like that j fallen creatures, publican rat. It seemed to be suildenly endowed renounce their evil way with life. The explanation was simple enough. The canvas covering the rat is painted from the fore part backward, and all the sewing is done backward, so that there should be rio projections of any kind fading "forward. After this explanation I pushed the rat backward and it-ceased to the moment the pushing hand left it.' So'life-like were the rats, though double the-size of real ones, that two children coming into the shop ith customer, on seeing them, rushed screaming to the door. There is a'story of-an old theatre cat—areal cat—loitering about the wings during thie performance of the Rutcatcher of Hame-lin, 'Tt was just at the point when the rats under the spell of the piper's music followed him out of the town. Pussy saw the rats. They were retreating from-her. -She flew atone, but: its indifference' to her attack and the tasteless insipid canvas soon undeceived her, and'she relinquished her hold retreat the way she-came. That, how ever, was not: an easy matter for battalions of rats, unmoved and exhibiting no fear, wore bearing down upon her. 'The wires, too dicated" there was nowhere, and was excited both on account of the rats and the uproar het appearance had occasioned among' the audience. "She knew where she was, and she knew her-way about the theatre, so she jumped over the footlights on the head of the conductor; ran down his body, ind disappeared.
The Saturday Journal presents the usual atttictivo features and is brimful of gossipy paragraphs and tit bits of useful information. Indicative of the feverish excitement attending the awaiting of football results. in the old cowitry, the following extract is worth perusal Acrowd of men' and boys: had gathered found the tobacconist's window, waiting for the result of a big cup-tie match. One and all were excited, and the chances of the lodal team were being eagerly (and at imes hotly) discussed. Yes, 1 suppose it's a good advertisement forme," said the tobacconist in answer to the writer's query, but very few of that lot will come inside to buy. They don't care anything about me and my wares they only want to see-my telegram. ' It's quite' a comedy watching their faces when the result is stuck up. It might bea life and death matter to them, they tremble s0 excitedly. If the mesa: it will be here soon—announces a win forthe locals,' they'll kick up a din with rattles, whistles, and other torturing things which will wake the town.' But if the favourites get licked, there'll be precious little row. 'The whole crowd will sneak away like' whipped curs, wi any of them to drown their disappointment in. drink. Take, it badly? I should think they do! T've seen big wen burst into tears when the result of the match hasn't suited-them. I don't know how itis, but there is something in football which grips the affections of the public like a vice."
The Quiver is chiefly remarkable for a short and touching poem from the pen of it Edwin Arnold entitled 'A Child's Wisdom.", The Author of "The Light of Asia" presents childish woes and wishes with delightful simplicity. In the course of an article headed "Forgiveness and Fear" the Bishop of Derry writes "Religious despair is reckless. Men say, as inspiration has recorded: 'There is no hope: we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after the stubbornness, of his own evil heart.' Thus the
to banish the thought of Him if they are bhat that God is unforgiving teaches man strong enough: it has never yet begotten jo any man that holy fear which is the beginning of wisdom, and is equally far amoved from the twin frenzies of recklessness and of terror. Everyone must have; noticed, in the life of our Lord on no object impelled by a mere push earth, how glad were multitudes of pour and sinners, to Clearly. they had already desired salvation, if only they could hope for it; but their' despair had not been remedial, they had gone on in because they saw no escape; and the fear {ot God was only Lorn in them when the Have of Gail became credible, visible, shining in the eyes of Jesus. "This was, no {doubt, one reason why He dealt. most gently with those who lind most deeply jfallon, There was no danger of driving Simon the Pharisca to despair; but the scorned lost woman, weeping ut her Master's feet, was ready to love nich if only she might think herself forgiven. "Uhere is forgiveness with Thee, that 'Thou mayest be feared for while man utterly' hopeless can attain to a gigantic and almost ssu defiance, yet bravo men who set. th teeth to die, and would have perished with indomitable valour, have wept Li ron when the unhoped-for deliverance came. So that four, if you think of it, is, after all, the dusky shadow of hope, long: thening'no doubt, like other shadows, a3 the sun withdraws, but vanishing, like them, when the darkness is complete. The text has also mud to tell us about the j nature of the forgiveness of God."
The matter-of-fact Work is quite up to {date in the way of suggestions and hints in relation to modern inventions, With regard to pin-hole photography, the man j with the camera will sve that the followin {is a useful piece of information Fit in the grouves for a sliding front sheet of thin metal, in the centre of which has been drilled a hole not exceeding.2, in. Hin diameter. Arrange the plate at such a distance that the disc of light thrown illuminates the corners of the plate and no more. 'The picture should not exceed H-plate, 'The exposure varies' from ten minutes to one hour in sunlight, according subject. Use rapid plates. Take great care that no light reaches the plate except through the hole.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.