A Popular Move in Magazinedom.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 57, 22 June 1908, Page 3

A Popular Move in Magazinedom.

" The New Idea " for June—just to hand—is the second of the enlarged issues, and is really an abundant sixpenn'orth. The Australian fiction is admirable, a notable feature being the story of two Queensland girls who made their living by cutting pinetimber in the northern forests of Queensland. The tale of their daily life, with its hardships and compensations ; the story of their adventures and their romances, make excellent reading; and the illustrations, by Laurie Tayler, are admirable. There are other stories, shorter and longer, Miss Henrietta P. Serjeant begins a most entertaining love-story that promises to take the reader to Japan and back, and hold them thrilled all the way. Then, on the practical side, Monsieur Worth, ot Paris, the famous fashion authority, contributes another racy article on the subject of good taste in dress. This is made the introduction to the journal's fashion department, which is full of good things. This fashion department is being conducted on novel lines. In the first place, there are from thirty to forty up-to-date, useful designs, of which paper patterns may be had from the office. Then one page of these designs is taken, and readers are asked to place the six costumes in order of merit, according to their good taste in dressing, and a cash prize is offered to the reader displaying best judgment. In the issue before us we notice that one reader, a resident of Mirboo, receives a cheque for £$ ios 6d, as the first prize winner for the previous month j and twenty or thirty other readers re ceive prizes ranging from is downwards. In addition, the latest designs in millinery are shown; there is a page of practical hints on fashion novelties, and several illustrated lessons in making useful and dainty articles of fancywork. To enumerate even the departments in "The New Idea" de, voted to literature, art, science, poetryand domesticity would require too much space; but these many departments are all up to the usual high standard of this capital Australian woman's magazine. '