MAGAZINES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5737, 4 November 1905, Page 16

MAGAZINES.

Number four of “The Keel Funnel” opens with a well-written article giving the history and constitution of Otago University. It is by AH' T. K. Sidcy, M.H.R.. who ranks among tho more distinguished scholars wiio have graduated from tho Southern centre of learning. Air Edward Francis writes on “Chinese Labour in tho Transvaal,'’ His article, only the first section of which appears in the present number, takes up the cudgels on behalf of the 'proUhinosc party. Though it may be read with due allowance for the sincerity of tho writer’s convictions, this contribution can have little effect upon wcll-e*tab-lishcd Australasian opinion. Air IV. R. GniHoyle, the Director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, writes all too briefly of the beauties of that area, but modestlv refrains from telling hew much of ti.Vir present attract! vejioss tho gardor • owe to his own art as a landscape garden-r. and his skill in forestry and bo’ar.y. The other contents run to upwards of two dozen original contribniio! s in prose and verse, with copious illustrations. Tho “Bed Funnel” is a good sixpenn’orth. “Life” for October is, as usual, well supplied with informative matter on topics of tho hour which have been collated from various sources. It has also several original contributions, all of which cro bright and readable. The October “Review of Reviews” has three articles with special reference to this colony. Tlio first of these is an illustrated description of the Hot Lake district, and the second “Tho Coming Nc-licen&o Poll,” by the Rev. L. AI. Isitt. Tlio 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. Tlio 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 Eye-

witness in Manchuria,” Air Maurice Baring’s “IVith rue Russians,” _Mr Douglas Story’s “Campaign with Kuropatkiu, ' and “Groat Japan” by Air Alfred Stead. The “Review of Reviews” ior October is a specially interesting number.