PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Evening Star, Issue 14185, 9 October 1909, Page 2

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

The ‘ Review of Reviews ’ for October is an interesting compilation. Some of the photographs are those of M. Bleriot, who successfully crossed above the English Channel from Prance to England, and the tiny monoplane with which he accomplished the feat, also a diagram of Mr Latham’s aeroplane, and a portrait of that enterprising person. The character sketch is of Mrs Barnett, and forms a most readable description of the work of this phil-anthropicallv-inclined lady. The Book of the Month is a synopsis of a remarkable book—‘ The Trade of Marriage, or the Chief End of Woman.’ The magazine is crowded with interesting current information.

We have received a copy of Tuberculosis in New South Wales/'being a statistical analysis of the mortality from tubercular diseases during the last thirty-three years. Messrs Whitoombo and Tombs send us a copy of ‘ The Finest Walk in the World ’ (written by B. E, Baughaa, author of ‘Shingle Short’), which originally appeared in the London ‘ Spectator,’ and illustrated with over twenty beautiful photographs. As a keepsake, or a present for the ( folks at Home, there are few more attractive publications on the market. The ‘Lone Hand’ (Gordon and Gotch) for October has an attractive colored frontispiece and letterpress article entitled ‘The Mutiny on the Convict Ship,’, as well as other articles, serials, stories, and verse. These include _ ‘ The Secrets of Cinematography,’ 'Hunting the Lobster,’ • Buffalo-hunting in Australia,’ ‘The Last Sundowner,’ and the first of Theodore Roosevelt’s African, gome trail articles, describing the doings of that mighty hunter. The hundred odd pages are plentifully strewn with plain and tinted illustrations, and help to make up an acceptable and wholesome number. The ‘Lone Hand' has changed for the better under its present editorial supervision, and may be admitted without fear to the family circle. There is nothing in its illustrations or its literary matter now to call for the intervention of the police or the application of the birch. Public opinion has its own way of resenting overdoses of suggestive “art.”