NATIONAL MAGAZINE.

Kaikoura Star, Volume LIV, Issue 38, 17 May 1934, Page 3

NATIONAL MAGAZINE.

THE RAILWAYS MONTHLY. Steadily, month by month, increasing nupmbers of New Zealanders are recognising gladly that the “N.Z. Railways Magazine.” far from being a cold and formal “house organ,” is distinctly a national paper, which helps importantly to give the Dominion’s people a good knowledge of their country, past and present. In the big range of pictures and literary feasurcs, the May issue well maintains the high standard that was set when the Magazine was re-or-ganised as a national publication a year ago. In “Meet Mister Man” Mr Ken Alexander, with his delightful drollery and drawings, philosophises merrily and cleverly on human nature in the individual and in the mass. Continuing his series of “Famous New Zealanders,” Mr James Cowan gives a very bright chronicle of Alfred Domett, the remarkable literary statesman, whose many-sided personality made a deep impress on New Zealand long ago. Mr C. A. L. Treadwell describes the trial of Louis Chemis, one of the most dramatic eases that ever came before a court in this country. The wellknown New Zealand novelist Isabel M. Peacock, in “Speed,” tells a true and thrilling story of the New Zealand Railways. There are further good instalments of “Wisdom of the Maori,”

“Pictures of New Zealand Life,” original verse, notes on books and writers, and an excellent “Women’s Section,” which includes a delightful sketch of “Mother and Daughter” from the modern viewpoint.