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Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2647, 10 November 1919, Page 4

j “ Life ” magazine has scored a hit in j securing the sole rights of Captain Frank I Hurley’s story of his wonderful Adventures with a Camera. Hurley, with an artist’s sense of beauty, a natural gift : for pictorial composition, and a remarks able knowledge of technical processes, has achieved the foremost position among the world’s greatest photographers. Though not long out of his twenties, he has made four journeys to the Antarctic ■ with Mawson and Shacklcton, has camera-hunted the wilds of Central Australia, recorded the teeijiing life of the Dutch East Indies, and crossed the Andes. He was appointed official war> photographer with the A.I.F. in France, acted in a similar capacity in Palestine, and risked his life a hundred ‘times in ; securing a series of wanpieturcs of the j Australian f irccs in action, .frequently ; “ going over ” with the front line. His adventures on laud, at sea, and in the air make a wonderful story, which Mr Hurley is uow telling in “ Life.” The November issue contains a fine chapter on “ The Hazards and Close Calls of Polar Exploration.” Another timely article in the November issue of “ Life ” is one in which the late Hon. Alfred Deakin’s opinions on public speaking and how to acquire the art arc given in detail. A very fine serial story and one of a scries of racy detective stories known as “ The Grey Seal Mysteries ’’(make up, with a good short story, a strong fjctioq.’ element, and Dr. Fitcffett tells with I}is customary crispness the history of the mouth in Australasian politics and abroad. Messrs J. I. aul J. A, (J'Kauo, sup* gcou dentists, visit Cromwell ou Tuesday and Wednesday.