PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2362, 1 June 1899, Page 48

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The April number of The Bookfellow, issued by the Sydney Bulletin Publishing Company, is a most encouraging example of ■what Bookfellow supporters may expect in the ■way of literary excellence wedded to artistic daintiness. A little shake of cayenne pepper on some of the articles, a? beseems a. Bulletin t booklet, but not overdone, mind you ; clever, but not coarse, witt}' and wi.se, with special touches of intimate humanity, grace in its poems, and sharp, brisk literary skill in its articles. We confidently recommend any man who enjoys a piquant mental morsel to Bend the necessary Is and provide himself with the four numbers — January, February, March, and April — of this capital Bulletin " magajinelet.

Pearsall's Illustrated Handbook for Knitting in Silks. — Messrs Gordon and Gotch, of Melbourne, have sent us a very complete HiUU manual of knitting, issued by James

Pearsall and Co, London. The illustrations and directions, which are — so "Emmeline" informs vs — remarkably varied and numerous, are all intended to apply to the use of Pearsall's knitting silks only, and the book, with its clear type, attractive contents, and excellent arrangement appears to us to be decidedly cheap at Is.

Captain James Hart, a native of Durham, has recently died at Coquimbo, Chili. In the course of an adventurous career he saved, by personal acts of bravery, more than 50 lives.