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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1610, 7 January 1903, Page 68 (Supplement)

We have received the issue of “The Atom Quarterly” for Deoember, January" and February, and find that this New Zealand girls’ magazine maintains its excellent reputation for readable original matter. Perhaps the best thing m this number is the poem, “The Sea King’s Daughter,” by Maud Peacocke —a story of passion and pathos well told, though the concluding verse limps somewhat. After it we should place the article on “Madame Roland and the French Revolution,” by “M.M.8.” In an article on “A New Zealand Literature,” Lilia McKay says all honour will be due to the novelist who first writes cleverly and truthfully of life in New Zealand, “for he will lay the foundation stone of a Temple of New Zealand Literature.” This is doubtless true; but why “he”? In a magazine “written and illustrated by the girls of New Zealand,” one -would have expected the feminine pronoun. This number of the “Atom” contains some very creditable efforts in the field of fiction. The editress, Dora Moor, sends the season’s compliments on a full page, containing * a photograph of herself, and an interior view of her studio.

A reduction of 2 5 per cent, is to be made by the Minister of Railways in the rates for the conveyance of passengers and goods on Lake Wakatipn. at the beginning of the new year, and cheap excursions will be run weekly for six weeks as an experiment