REVIEWS FOR READERS.

" THE GREAT PUSH."

Patrick Mac Gill has "arrived." No longer do critics refer to tho young Irishman as the Navvy Poet. Memoir- of "Children of tho Dead End" and "The Ilat Pit," carrying novelised experiences of his labouring days in the harvest fields and pick-aud-shovel work iv Scotland, as realistic as Zola's works, havo now been, swallowed up in his war books, "The Amateur Army" and "The Red Horizon," containing the impressions of Private Patrick Mac Gill, who fought and was wounded in Fiance. Now our author's publisher, Mr Herbert Jenkins (London) sends us a copy of the latest Mac Gill book, "The Great Push," containing an. episode of the Great War. Look at his precis of war: "The battle-lino is a secret world, a world of curses. The guilty secret of war is shrouded in lies and shielded by blood-stained swords. To know it, you must be one of those who wage it, a party to dark and mysterious orgies of carnage. War is the purge of repleted kingdoms, needing a close place for its operations. I havo tried in this hook to give, as far as I am allowed, an account of an attack in which I took part." And what a picture 1 It was all wordpainted on tho scene of action —-at Lea Brebis, prior to the Big Push, and. in tho hospital two days after he was wounded at Loos. CAPTAIN BEAN'S BOOKS.

Everybody who has followed the war news since the Australasians took part in the operations will hay© become not only familiar with but will have appreciated the war correspondence of Captain. C. E. W. Bean, who officially represents th« Commonwealth as its recorder with the Ansacs. But not many folks in this part of the world, are aware that Mr Bean was rising to fame aa a novelist and special writer before the war. "Charlie" Bean was a popular and well-known journalist in Melbourne and Sydney, and he made a wide circle of readers with "Flagships Three" (a foretaste of the Australian Nary), "On the Wool Track" (a description of life on the great stations in Australia's Outback Country), and "The Dreadnought of the Darling" (containing a great mass of information regarding a rich basin into which pours the waters of a mighty watershed). Recognising that there should be a Bean boon in readers at Home and abroad, Hodder and Stoughton, the enterprising London publishers, are reprinting the Victorian's works in their neat, cloth-bound Is (net) editions, with attractive coloured jackets, and copies are to hand of the Wool Track and the Dreadnougkt books. THE LATEST MAGAZINES. The Red Magazine, No. 175, continues to provide delcotable fare for readers. Bertram Atkey has struck a rich vein iv his new series "The Backslidings of Mr Hobart Honey" (this time his hero is back in tho Stone Age), and Roy Norton's serial, "The Unknown Mr Kent" reaches its semi-final stage. Other tales are by T. C. Bridges, James Barr, Coutts Brisbane, Morton Howard, C. C. Andrews, A. M. Burrage, and Isabel Maud Peacoeke, whose Auckland Boy Scout yarns aro "real good."

. Cassell's Magazine for June (A. H. Maclean) is full of good things. H. G. Wells writes on "The Outlook for the Germans," and other interesting arti«le», illustrated, are "The Faoe of the Hun" and "Germany's Secret Hoard of Gold." The stories aro by Max Pemberton, Mrs BaiUie Reynolds, Radcliffo Martin, Captain. Shaw, and others, plus a complete novel by-Rafael Sabatini.

The Lady's World for August has ita Fashions exceptionally well illustrated, with several practical and useful garments which, will b e much appreciated by the home dressmaker. The gratis patterns are of interest, with styles well in advance. The millinery article is for matrons and elderly ladies. There are interesting knitting designs, and Leslie Grey gives some useful hints on casserole cookery, while Lydia Chatterton gives pleasant remedies for curing coughs and colds.

The Musician for August gives pride of position to a talk by the famous Alma Gluck on "The Human Side of Development in Singing." Another artiste, Yolande Mero } chats on "Conditions in Piano-playing." Other articles: "Th Importance of Sight-reading and Hinta on Acquiring It," "The New School of Pianopractice," and "Efficiency Self-ap-plied." The sheet-music presented incudes a Herbert Lowe march ("On to Platteburg"), a Rhode Mazurka, Folff Idylls, Mary Wood's Berceuse, a Spence Andante Pastorale, and some songs.

) The New Magazine for June carries as it# art supplement pictures from the play of the month. Tho stories include "The Sack" (by Radclrtfe Martin), "Old Dutch" (Will Johnston), "The Dare Devils" (Clarence New) 3 and a complete novel, "Diamond Light," by Albert Theynor. The ladies' special pages'at the end deal with "What to Wear/ etc. The Detective Magazine for August 5 shows that Nicholas Carter can edit as well as write. It is a good number, with Irving Hancock's absorbing novelette ("Under the Ban of Li Shoon"), serial* by Douglas Grey and H. McD. Bodkin (the London criminologist), another tale from the Chemist Club, and half a dozen other stories plus miscellaneous items. The Motion Picture News for August 12 and 19 indicate by editorials and special articles how tremendously th» cinema industry is developing and how closely the many interests ar© organising to make tho moat of the opportunities offering by the immense popularity of the / photoplay. The magazine is profusely pictured. Adventure for September is a noble enterprise iv cheap reading of just tbe typo to keep one. engrossed by tho fireside these cold nights. "Tho Secret Wolf" is a complete novel of adventure in the wilds of Canada, by S. C'arleton. There is a generous instalment of the Bishop-Brodsur Minotaur serial (a great tale of ancient days, with Cret© as tho playground). Eleven other better-than-good yarns appear in this 224-page issuo, the storytellers including such masters of tho'craft as W. C. Tuttle, Mr and Mrs PLnkerton, Hapsburg Liebo, and Arthur D. Howden Smith. And special mention must bo made of Edward Hopper's illustrating headings.