MAGAZINES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1756, 1 November 1905, Page 22

MAGAZINES.

Number four of “The Red Funnel” opens with a well-written article giving the history and constitution of Otago' University. It is by Mr T. K. Sidey, M.H.R.. who ranks among the more distinguished scholars who have graduated. from the Southern centre of learning. Mr Edward Francis writes on “Chinese Labour in the Transvaal.” His article, only the first section of which appears in the present number, takes up the cudgels on behalf of the proChinese party. Though it may be read with due allowance for the sincerity of the writer’s convictions, this contribution can have little effect upon well-estab-lished: Australasian opinion. Mr W. R. Guilfoyle, the Director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, writes all too briefly of the beauties of that area, but modestly refrains from telling hew much of their present attractiveness the gardens owe to-his own art as a landscape garden-r. and his skill in forestry and botany. The other contents run to upwards of two dozen original contribunions in prose and verse, with copious illustrations. The “Red Funnel” is a good sixpenn’orth. “Life” for October is, as usual, well supplied with informative matter on topics of the hour which have been collated from various sources. It has also several original coiniribtitions, all of which are bright and readable. The October “Review of Reviews” has three articles with special reference to this colony. The first of these is an illustrated description of. the Hot Lake district, and the second “The Coming No-license Poll,” by the Rev. L. M. Isitt. The article, in spite of its title, is not wholly anticipatory, but contains a brief sketch of the changes of opinion through which Mr Isitt himself went before becoming a prohibitionist, and a short explanation of the genesis of the movement in this colony. The third article is an interview with Mr T. E. Donne, the manager of our Tourist Department. The “Books of the Month” are Lord. Brooke’s “An Eyewitness in Manchuria,” Mr Maurice Baring’s “With rhe Russians,” Mr Douglas Story’s “Campaign with Kuropatkin,” and “Great Japan” by Mr Alfred Stead. The “Review of Reviews” f'or October is a specially interesting number.