PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17533, 27 January 1919, Page 2

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

We are m receipt of tho thirty-sktli issue of Stone's Otago and Southland Directory. Like its predecessors, the present edition contains nuineroua additions and improvements, and the work as a whole will bear favourable comparison with any similar publication. The street and coun:try, directories contain all the streets in and around Dunedin, Gore, Inveroargill, and Oaroaro, together with alphabetical directories and postal information of all the country towns and postal districts in Otago and Southland with full names and occupations of the inhabitants. The alphabetical, trades, municipal 'and county, official and judicial, educational and ecclesiastical, societies, railway and postal and telegraph directories, together-, with, the New i Zealand annual, are oia compendious character, and furnish, a fund of carefully compiled informatiion. The maps and plans contained in the directory have been specially prepared for the work, and are corrected to data

Certain records of submarine fighting, only recently allowed by the authorities to be published in full detail, are vividly presented in tile September number of the ■Windsor Magazine, with an- excellent series of illustrations by skilful artists. A timely article, illustrated by , photographs, deals with the subject of kinema work for disabled soldiers and sailors, the extent to which a great modem enterprise is already helping to provide lucrative work for our disabled men has an importance of its own. One of the most beneficent, though least of war-time charities is described in an article on the Children's Aid Committee and ite work for the welfare of children of soldiers and sailors on service. The, fiction of the number is attractively varied, and includes an excellent new story from the careers of Mr Commissioner Sanders, "60006," and their colleagues, by Edgar Wallace ; a delightful little comedy of London life by Keble Howard; a story on a more serious theme by J. B. Harris Borland, and other complete stories, grave and gay, by M. L. C. PickthaH, A. M. Burrage, and other authors. The fiction is cleverly illustrated by well-known artists. ■ Pears'a Animal is, as usual, accompanied by three pictures—two coloured and one in monochrome. —all of which are worth framing. The leterpress is of the usual attractive description, the tales being by novelists who have made their mark, and all having a distinct Christmassy flavour. Chambers's • Journal for November is a most attractive number. "The Bulb Garden"_ ia another of the interesting stories regarding submarines, in which Donald Brace and his Catalan friend, the "Little Bird," figure, while "Taffrail" continues his stirring narratives showing -the part the mercantile marine played in the great war. There are several cleverly written short chaptere of fiction, and a' number of other interesting articles on special topics, together with a quantity of useful information on general topics. We have received from the publishers, Messrs Raphael Tuck and Sons (Ltd.) a publishers' proof of a reproduction by them in facsimile of the letter addressed by the Queen, on behalf of •■the women of the Empire, to the men of the navy, army, and air force in April last, when the last desperate German offensive was at Ha height. The impressive message from her Majesty is enshrined in a striking border, designed hi colour by Mr Frank 0. Salisbury, in which the emblems of Faith and Victory are introduced with admirable effect. The publication is entirely for the benefit of the British _Red_Cross Fund, for the organisers of it is needless to say, there is no armistice.