“Railways Magazine”

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 3, 5 January 1937, Page 5

“Railways Magazine”

SOME BIG FEATURES. “The most honoured and admired figure in New Zealand literature today," is the tribute by James Cowan to Jessie Mackay—poet, idealist and Celtic patriot—in the January issue of “The New Zealand Railways Magazine." “Only Eileen Duggan of all our poets has approached her fine quality — the inner dream—vision that informs

everything it touches with the essence of spirituality." Ken Alexander has many merry shots in “Joyous January or the Month that Bucks You Up." “In January," he says, “the cogs of commerce whirr less wildly, the mills of money slow their gristing and much of humanity shakes off the shackles of shekels. The rivers are rife with fly* fishers, the sands are strewn with torsotanners and cuticle-colourers—on the breakers are brokers; there are bankers in bunkers, and on the sea-shore en* joying the over-draft in the undertow. Bakers are throwing their ‘dough’ about, dentists are doing all their pulling in boats and humanity is human." O. N. Gillespie gives a cheerful salute to Wanganui, “a river city of enterprise and culture." “The finest flowers of our New Zealand national growth are our lovely provincial towns," he declares, “and Wanganui is the water lily in this garland of civic blooms." Redmond Phillips puts plenty of pep into the seventh instalment of ‘‘The Thirteenth Clue," a mystery story which goes like a whizzbang—well illustrated by M. Matthews, whose work has reached a high standard. There is a wide variety of other features and about sixty pictures —a full-sized family magazine.