NO FAMILY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11113, 14 May 1898, Page 6

NO FAMILY

Should be without Wolfe's Schnapps. No remedy in more reliable, none more iultllible. A perfect medicinal beverage.- df)

Ruyerii the Buccaneer." The other stories and. short pieces provide good reading, aud the poets are not neglected. The illustrations, aa usual, are very high clasa. " Chambers'^ Journal" (W. and R. Chambers, London and Ediuburgh).—The serial " John Burnefi of Burns " is continued in the April number, and there is a complete story, " Hillicent's Husband." "Mine Salting," " Tho French at Lake Chad," and " The Strange Story of Lady Dundee" are interesting i general articles. " The Chusan Islands," in which is given aa outline of the British occupation, is of special interest iv view of the complications in the Far East. Nor is the article on Liverpool aud its privateers and slave trade untimely. "The Leisure Hour" (56 Paternoster Row, London). —The April number opens with an article on " The Fort and City of Bristol," the reading of which might furnish some hints to | our harbour authorities. Incidentally it is mii dicated how trade and shipping may be driven from a port. Mr, Edward Whymper tells the sfcory or' "The Great Avalanche on the Gemmi." Mr Mauuder's paper on Greenwich Observatory is continued, as are the Australian sketches. Fiction, poetry, puzzles, prize competitions, and excellent illustrations are among the other features of the number. The Raligious Tract Society's parcel of mou'thly publications for April should be ever welcome, especially to the younger portion of each household. " The Sunday at Home" contains a varied and excellent series of short articles on general subjects. " The Girls' Own Paper "in in most respects a secular paper, but care is taken that the fiction which abounds is of a healthy nature. Music, household duties, fancy and useful work, aud, poetry are not neglected. The monthly supplement contains a complete novel, that for April being entitled "A Caged Nightingale." Tales full of adventure, popular papers on outdoor sports and pastimes, descriptions of useful machines and how to make them, combined with genera^ reading calculated to interest tha young, are the features of the "Boys' Own Paper."- " The Cottager and Artisan," "Friendly Greetings," "Child's Companion," " Light in the Home," and " Our Little Dots " are all cheap publications for tha paople ano. the young. Each and all of the monthlies are capitally illustrated, and many of these are, no doubt, used to adorn the walls of many a cottage. ■: