PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13946, 4 July 1907, Page 11

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Tlio July number of the Lone Hand is to hand, and it certainly justifies the claim of tho publishers tint it is bettor than any which havo proccded it. All tho well-known writers and artis{s figure in its pages, and tho somewhat. disappointing scrappiness' of the l first number has disappeared. Aspiring writers who havo failed to win editorial approval «tc now Ircattd to individual replies of the candid kind peculiar to the Bulletin. Mr Archibald contributes a somewhat larger instalment than usual of his rominiscences. ' For the Public Good" is a series of exposures of medical and oilier frauds which cannot fail to interest, and possibly bonefit. The whole number is worthy of the; placo claimed for it.

We are ill rcceipt, from the Government Printer, of tho third edition of " Notes in Connection', with the Proccduro in Committee of tlio AV hole iu tho Houso of Ilopresonttttives," compiled by Mr H. Ottorsoii, clerk of the House, who has revised 'the publication so that it now includes references to rulings given and decisions arrived at in tho second session of 190 G. The new matter lias been perused by tho Speaker of tlio House, and corrections suggested by him havo bcon liiado. tho effect being to givo to tho Notes, which cannot fail to bo exceedingly useful to members of Parliament, an absolutely nuMioritativo character. Tho June number of tho Otugo University Boview is up to its usual standard. A fcaturo of it is tho evident interest taken in topics touched upon by, it as shown in a somewhat voluminous collection of letters. Wo have to acknowledge rocoilit of the New Zealand Poultry Journal for June.

— Rp.pid growth of tho fing«r-nails is regarded as a sign of pood honllh. — Most jtci-sonb employed in ilio Vfinctinn glass/industry begin to lose their sight when thoy aro between 40 and 50 years of ngo, and in n short time becoino totally blind. This blindness is caused by the exewsivo heat and ulare from the furnaces.