PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Evening Star, Issue 12094, 15 January 1904, Page 1

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

'The Boy's Own Paper' and special Christmas number (per JNew Zealand Bible Tract and Book Society) are replete with sufficient material to satisfy the most voracious boys' appetite. Story and sport, games and yams, pictures and poems, abound, and we have met few, if any, magazines to equal these in their own particular line. The serial stories commenced last month are continued, and there are other snort ones, as well as chatty illustrated articles on cards, football, stamp collecting, bicycling, etc. The Christmas number is specially devoted to the wildest, jolliest, weirdest, and most rollicking yarns, while the pictures outnumber the pages. * 'The Girl's Own Paper' and special Christmas number (per New Zealand Bible, Tract, and Book Society) continues to maintain its high reputation. Clean,' healthy, instructive, and amusing, filled with examples of the best work of well-known writers, and with a small army of illustrators enlisted to embellish its pages, it is small wonder that this magazine finds & home on the tables of Royalty as well as those of humbler and, perhaps, happier folk. Among the longer stories may be noted 'A Maiden of Dreams,' by Lily Watson; 'Rebels,' by Lady MargaxetMajendie; 'Barty's Love Story,' by Norman Gale'; and 'The Fairy Godmother,' by Ida Lemon.

'The Sunday at Home' (per New Zealand Bible, Tract, anil Book Society) for December contains among other interesting matter articles on 'Mr Gladstone's Religious Life,' ' Roman. Catholic Orders in Britain,' 'Deep Sea People' (By F. X. Bullen}, and 'Life in Uganda.' The serials are continued, and the illustrations are most varied. Articles of special moment to Sunday School teachers and students occupy an important but not an overshadowing place. It ia a first-class magazine, and worthy of ite wide circulation. 'The Leisure Hour' (New Zealand Bible, Tract, and Hook Society) for December is, as usual, a readable number. It is sufficient in the case of these well-known .magi-, zincs (that had a reputation before many: of the more showy ones oi to-day weta ever dreamed about) to indicate a few of the articles. By these the whole may be judged. . ThV present number contains among its wealth of story and picture the following:— * My Good Old PaL' by Owen Kildare; 'Gaspar, the Disciple,' by Norman Gale; " Morley's Life of Gladstone,', by Principal Bainy; ' Irish Viceroys of Two Centuries/ by T." H. S. Eecott; and London School Board pictures.. We have also received from- the same firm ' The Cottager and Artisan,' 'Our Little Dot,' 'The Child's Companion,' and-'''Friendly Greetings.' . .'