ISSUED TO-DAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14819, 24 October 1911, Page 7

ISSUED TO-DAY.

SUPERB CHRISTMAS NUMBER. THE WEEKLY NEWS ANNUAL PORTFOLIO OF BEAUTIFUL >-/■;. PICTURES. ,'-'-..;. Tee Christmas number of the Auckland • Weekly News is issued to-day. We are onlv anticipating the general verdict of the public in pronouncing it the finest number that has ever appeared... It en- • hances the high reputation secured by its predecessors for the wealth and beauty -of their illustrations, the wide variety said interest of the subjects depicted, and the charming and artistic effect produced 'by the happy combination of exquisite taste and mechanical skill. Many delightful phases of New Zealand life are vividly and pleasingly portrayed in this fascinating number, and many a picturesque scene adorns its pages. There is, moreover, a joyousness and beauty in the incidents illustrated and a suggestiveness and sweetness and sublimity in the sea and landscape pictures that are haunting in their effect.. We cannot imagine any production better calculated to impress all who turn over its leavea with ■the"-spell of New Zealand, its alluring characteristics, and its manifold attractions. "For friends and relatives in other countries no more charming souvenir of the land we live in could be selected than this superb number. It is without exaggeration the finest publication of its kind ever issued from the press. ' To deal in detail with all its beautiful tinted pictures is unnecessary. It is enough to say that from the first page of its cover, which bears a finely coloured .illustration of the New Zealand fan, it is replete with pictorial gems, each in its degree a work of art. Maori life, angling, yachting, mountaineering, pastoral pursuits, the kauri gum and timber industries, New Zealand's happy child life, summer scenes and summer seas, and much besides are all represented in delightful profusion. In addition, two handsome coloured plates are presented with number, both dealing New Zea•.and subjects. One is entitled Searching For His Section," and tells a typical 'itory of pioneer settlement. The other * .remarkably fine view of MilfordSound The letterpress, as usual, is of a tagtt • 'class vein. There is an introduction dealing with the progress of the Dominion, and several short stories of absorbing interact by well-known writers. The num- ■ ber is published at the price of one shilling, arid orders should be sent in without delay. - ._