ABSTRACT
A large number of the magazines recorded are written for adults, and with each birthday the boy comes nearer to the mental age, emotional outlook and social position of the adults for whom they are written. It is a demand which grows in strength as the boys become older: the very opposite was true of the demand for 'bloods'. At every age the Secondary School boys read more magazines. These magazines are, for the poor, luxuries attainable only in small quantities. No boy can possibly know all of the magazines available; indeed, he can only know of a tiny handful. His only means of getting to know is from friends and relatives or by accidents of incalculable kinds. The magazines which provide information about the world and comment upon it do not notably increase their hold on the growing adolescent; indeed at 15 + they seem to be weakening in their appeal.
