PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2490, 4 December 1901, Page 60

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The Pall Mall Magazine for November is at once an interesting as well as a charming number. A glance at the principal contents proves how varied and well chosen they are. For lovely illustrations it would be hard to beat "The Arguilles of Mont Blanc" and "The Royal Tour," with its. pictures of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. "The Boer' Prisoners at Bermuda" is an. interesting topic well treated. "William, M'Kinley," by William Waldorf Astor, is supplemented by two splendid portraits of the late President and his successor. "The Race to the Poles," by Pridljop Nansen contains among other illustrations a fine portrait of Commander Scott, R.N., the leader of the English Antarctic Expedition, whose last port of call wil' be Lyttelton. All these articles are good, but perhaps the most vitally interesting number in the magazine is the one under the query, "Is the Invasion of England Possible?" being a verbatim translation of a paper written by a well-known French officer. Of the fiction in the November number, we merely remark that the several short stories are unusually good.

A_ special .commissioner of the New Zealand Times, writing of the Main Trunk railway route from Poro-o-tarao southward, says that the entire route after passing the King Country border to as far south as Taumaranui, a distance of over 50 miles, is disappointing. The lanel is almost entirely of pumice formation. The last camp lies to the northward of Taumaranui. Nothing beyond survey work has been done on the remaining 72 miles of the proposed line at the end of which Turangarere on the sotithern end will be struck. On account of the physical elifficulties likely to be met with, it does not appear likely that the line will be completed for many years to come.

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