PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 21

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

"A Fuller Life : for You," by Olive Mercer, is received from the Practical Psy6hology' Club, Duriedin. It consists of some twenty brief and well-written articles which should be helpful to the diffident and downcast, as the assertions are mainly based on statements in the New Testament.

"Tho Droll Stories Magazine, " Vol. 1, No. 1, is. received from the New Century Press, Sydney and Wellington. It is a bi-monthly publication devoted to wit and humour,' originated by Australian and New Zealand writers. Will Lawson has the place of honour, opening with "AVheu the Whistle Blew," and the late Henry Lawson follows I with his characteristic'story entitled "The Unknown, Ofod of Narrandera," and its opening is: "It was very hot and dusty— ." The stories are embellished with humorous tail pieces. It is hoped to make "Droll Stories" an anthology of the.best of Australian and New Zealand short stories.

"The Magazine of To-day" is 0110 of the latest of English monthlies and it i.i devoted to "a. New Britain," and its purpose is to present the best of modern thought and achievement, and it aims.in particular to givo month by month a more .comprehensive) picture of our.national life than has hitherto been attempted by any magazine. "The City of the Future," by Mr. Cluugb Williams-Ellis,■ bMi.I.B.A.j ,-iip article of: great interest to town planners, and commended to all municipal councillors. Gerald Gould writes on the seven great English novels of to-day—the achievements of John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole, Arnold Dennett, Cornptou Mackenzie, E. M. Poster, and H. H. Richardson. Modern religious tendencies, hospitals,.. concrete structures, science, tho arts, medicine, are the subjects of thoughtful articles, and a great variety of other topics make a full and promising first number of a magazine that, should appeal to all British readers at Home and overseas.

student who wishes to follow the subject farther and put Dr. Coiidliffe's conclusions under test -will bo able to do so with ca.se, as'the volume contains full notes and references to sources and a valuable index. It is :i book which should be on every public man's shelf, but not to-gather dual