PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10731, 20 February 1897, Page 2

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

"Windsor Magazine" (Ward, Lock, and Co., London : J. Braithwaite, Dunedin), —The January number, which is to hand, contains the second instalment; of Hall Caine's new novel " The Christian." Mr Archibald Cromwell contributes a paper descriptive of Ha warden Castle, and there are portraits of Mr and Mrs Gladstone and their descendants. The stories told of "Lauder Came, the Confes?or" are somewhat after the sfcyle of .Conan . Doyle's Sherlock Holmts. There are articles on " Londou Halfpenny Papers" and " Moments with Modern Musicians." Under the title " Colouial Prospects" is given a condensation of interviews wifch the Hon. W. P. Reeves, Sir W. B. Perceval, and Sir M. Fraser, Agents-general. Short stories, general articles, the editor's scrapbook, literary notes, &c, make up an interesting number.

From the Religious Tract Society, London, we havo received a batch of monthly publications for January. "The Leisure Hour," an established favourite, besides serials contains articles on " The United States Navy," " The Irish Policemau." " A Lady's Visit to the Diamond Fields," " Future Kings," "Notes on Science and Discovery," &c. There is a charming frontispiece and some well-executed engravings. "The Sunday at Home" is another publication that is nicely illustrated. There is a pathetic Christmas story entitled " The Old Ringer's Laßt Pull" and numerous interesting articles on a variety of topics, including one on almshouses and another on the handwriting of famous divines. " Sunday Hours "is another publication that is nicely illustrated, while the articles are of a most varied but interesting nature. Tho Sunday hours devoted to a perusal of this monthly are not likely co prove dull. "The Boys' Owu Paper" is mainly devoted to tales of adveutura calculated to interest boys and unconsciously cultivate a high Btaudard of honour aud morality. Short and harmless

amusements are not neglected. In "The Girls' Own Paper," while fiction of a pleasant but harmless nature figures largely, there are many useful household hints and leaeona and many articles calculated to extend the-know-ledge of the young reader. Both thia and "The Boys' Own Paper"" are illustrated. " Friendly Greetings, or Illustrated Readings for the People," "Light in the Home," "The Cottiger'and Artisan," "The Child's Companion," and " Our Little Dots " are tbe titles of cheaper publications by which the society seek to brighten the home of the workers and the children.