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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1726, 29 March 1905, Page 19

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Wo have received from Messrs John Birch and Co., Ltd., 3, London Wall Buildings, London, a copy of their illustrated catalogue of up-to-date motor ears. This catalogue is intended for circulation in the colonies and foreign countries. It contains particulars of complete cars of standard types, and to all interested in motoring, this work ought to be of especial interest. The illustrations of the cars are particularly well printed.

• The “English illustrated Magazine” contains among other articles “Ihe Home and Haunts of Richard Jefferies ’", “Samplers,” with photographs of samplers old and new ; “A Day on the Boman Wall”: “The Chinese Drama in San Francisco’'; and “Ultima Thule,” otherwise known as the Shetlands.

In the “Leisure Horn” for February tlie principal articles are “In Memory of a Great Queen,” with pictures of monuments erected to Queen "Victoria; “Glimpses of the Red Men of Canada” ; “The Pastor’s Account Book, 17681780” : “Ragusa, the Pearl of the Adriatic” : and “The Royal Artillery.”

In this month’s “National Review” Mr Alfred Austin decries in verse the proposal to erect a statue to Shakespeare in London. The author of the “Quarterly Review” article on the Czar follows it up in the “National” with an indictment of “An Autocracy at Work.” The other articles include “Labour Conditions in the Transvaal,” by F. D. Chaplin, joint manager of the Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa (Limited) : “Protection against Fire,” by E. O. Sachs ; “The German Emperor’s War Scare,” by Gustos; “The Servant Problem,” by Viscountess Barrington; “The Situation in Morocco.” by W. B. Harris; “The Palais Royal,” by the Hon. Mrs E. Stuart Wortley ; and “The Siege of Port Arthur,” with “The Times” map of the port and its defences, by Colonel de la Peer Beresford, late Military Attache in St. Petersburg.

The “Grand Magazine,” which Sir George Newnes has launched as an illustrated companion to the “Strand,” contains in its first number articles on “Real Experiences of the Supernatural,” “The Japanese and the Russians,” from two points of view; “How to Live Long,” by some of “Those who have done it”; “The Immoralty of Women at Bridge” ; “The Case of Adolph Beck” —this being the first of a series of exposures of abuses “under the X-Rays ’; “Who has the best Time, a Man or a Woman P” by John Oliver Hobbes; and “The Blest Things to Read,” by “Otne who has read them.” The fiction in-

eludes “A Straggler of T 5,” which Sir A. Oonan Doyle considers his best story, and “The Theatre of the Future, a satirical forecast, by G. Bernard Shaw. The second volume of “The Government Insurance Recorder” has just been issued from the press of the Government Printer, Mr John Mackay, in a. neat cloth binding, gold lettered. The “Recorder” .is carefully edited, and serves the purpose admirably for which it is published.

Acknowledgments.—We have received the following new hooks : “Sophy Bunco,’ by Thomas Cobb (T. Fisher Unwin, London) ; “Divorce,” by Paul Bourget (T. Fisher Unwin, London) ; “My Lady oi the North,” by R. Parrish (G. P. Putnam Sons, London): “Far and Near,” by John Burrows (Arch. Constable and Co., London); “The Yellow War,’ by “O” (Win. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh); “Sydney Smith,” by George V . E. Russell (Macmillan and Co., London) ; “The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories,” by Gertrude Atherton (Macmillan and Co.) ; “The Prisoner ol Carisbrooke” A Tale of the Great Civil Mar, by Sidney Herbert Burcheli (Macmillan and Co., London) ; “In Spite ol the Czar,” by Guy Booth.by (John Long, London) ; “The Mask,” by William Le Queux (John Long. London); “The Ambassador’s Glove.” by Robert Machrav (John Long, London); “Sharks,” by Guy Thorne and Leo Custance (Greening and Co.. London; Gordon and Gotcli, Wellington); “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” by The Baroness Orczy (Greening and Co., London; Gordon and Gotcli, Wellington).