PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14357, 29 October 1908, Page 5

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

We are in rcceipi of the Christmas number of the Auckland Weekly News, which, as usual, ranks among tho foremost of the Dominion's seasonable publications. Tha number is wholly New Zealand in character. There is an cstremely handsome supplement in colours illustrating camp life. It is 1 a scene on the North Island Main Trunk railway. As an illustration of camp life it is excellent, and even bettor us a representation of bush scenery under. the vanishing conditions incidental to' settlement. Theie is another supplement, of extlremely viviu! colour, entitled Roses. The 'cover of thu number has the inevitable Aiaori lass, who is becoming indispensable to \ Xow Zealand! publication. The body of the paper is replete with typical bits of New Zealand: life and scenery, birds and animals, and iho reproduction of these reflects the groatos'j credit, on the office of the New Zealand Herald, which is resjuinsible for them. The number lornis an excellent souvenir of New Zealand.

The Pall Jlall Magazine for October iviil. bo found to bear evidence of that, continued progress of which we bad occasion l to speak on several successive months. Tlio sensational story, by J[r H. G. Wells, entitled "The War in the Air," reveals 110 diminution of inventive power on the part; of the ant-hoi-, who teems to bo; uoing to present-day mechanical science what Jules Verne did many years ago for liis con-, temporaries. There is a most, interesting series of illustrations of the- drawings of Charles Keene, whose graphic humour helped Punch so much. There axo also some splendid illustrations from a Ivenfish hop tield. Of course, there is the usual liberal' allowance of story and verse, ami this, vvit]> the capital illustrations, make the 'magazine ci:e worthy of perusal.

The Religious Tract Society liar, invndej the realm of sixpenny fiction, and A'o. :;o, entitled " Cousin Mona," by Kqsa Nonchottai Oarev, is to hand. These stories have ■a moral purpose. It is not contended that they possess high literary merit, but they ■arc healthy, and as an antidote to much of the poisonous reading that finds its way into the hands of the young should be of great value.