PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18757, 10 January 1923, Page 9

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The Bulletin of the Ulster - Association Icals with topics touching the problems of the North of Ireland. A photo of Mr lionav Law adorns the first page, and an interesting diary of Irish affairs is included. The Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau continues the publication of books and pamphlets dealing with the mineral industry of the British Empire and foreign countries. The latest received include nickel, coal, coke, and by-products (part III), and iron ore. The publications can be obtained from lI.M. Stationery Office, London. Stead’s Review for December 23 contains the usual sections devoted to the progress of the world and history in caricature. Ihe editor (Professor Meredith expresses “A Word for the Kinoma, while Mr John Brailsford supplies an interesting article, “In China Now.' Many other features make the number well up to the standard. , , “Short Sketches of the Geology, Botany. Zoology, and Ethnology of New Zealand (with notes on engineering works) constitutes a pamphlet prepared by the Government for the use of the members of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. The chief features of the dominion are treated, and the visitors will doubtless appreciate it as a guide to their investigations. Life for January contains comments on current affairs, short stories, and several articles. It would bo difficult to find two men of a wider divergence in occupation or native ability than Henry Ford and Warwick Armstrong. But that they both have an absorbing story to toll is proved by their articles. Henry Ford continues his hue series of how he built bis great business and what ho learnt in the process. V Armstrong also continues his senes on the Secret of Cricket” —articles with a great appeal to anyone who has ever handled a bat or bowled a ball or watched the great cricket contests of the past. The Forum continues to supply the needs of Australasian readers who desire the .treatment of the more serious public affairs m rm impartial and fair-minded spirit. In Ino Open Platform both sides of conipuLory military training are treated, and the leading articles deal with '‘The Reparations Deadlock” and “The Now Unionism ana the Public ” From overseas Daviti Hannav discusses “The Limits of Revolution, and the several departments are well conducted. The Christmas number of Chambers s Journal combines several new innovations with the popular and well-established tea tures “The Defence of Health Frontiers, by the Right Hon. Christopher Addison, MD MR., and Minister of Health, describes in gripping language the attempts af a handful of medical and scientific men to use the weapons of international goodwill md co-operation against these diseases which ire the terror of mankind. This work is jne of the numerous activities of the League af Nations, and in Dr Addismi finds a most sympathetic chronicler. Fiction finds its place in Chambers’s, and fact and science, together with travel and adventure stories, form a good issue. . , The Strand Magazine for Christmas is a high-class literary and artistic production. A complete long story by A. S x .f.“ U.m; ahinson, entitlecl “The Rough Little Girl md the Smooth Little Girl.” will be welcomed by lovers of this authors books. Pho first love of Charles Dickens, as revealed in some first-published letters, will add something of interest to the lore_of the great writer. Sir Conan Doyle, w. V> • Jacobs, P. G. Wodehouse, and other wellknown writers contribute to the pages of this number, while a number of artists who have painted the Prince of Wales give their impressions of the sitter, the article being illustrated in colour. Arnold Bennett discourses on children, arid the net result is a, fine production. . The Statist’s annual international banking section reviews exhaustively the general considerations affecting world banking during the past year, and deals, graphically and otherwise, not only with purely banking questions, but with foreign exchange movements and changes in the level of commodity prices in all principal countries. It also devotes separate articles to all important Indian, colonial and foreign banking institutions, in which the latest financial nosition is critically analysed and compared with the previous 10 years progress. The fiftieth anniversary number of the Manitoba Free Press tells the interesting story of one of Canada’s great newspapers While the Free Press was not the first to be established in Winnipeg, it f-ffijckly became one of its institutions. Of all the newspapers of that romantic post-colonial yesterday when the City of Winmnog was the railroadless and prairie-bounded village Df Winnipeg, the Free Press is t-ho solo survivor M says the narrative of the 50 years progress. Very naturally the Free Press is proud of its record. In an editorial —. r ifty y e ars of It”—a pardonable note of triumph is struck: “To have been born with a city and to keep step with it for 50 years; to have outlived all the contemporaries of its youth, remaining the sole survivor of the many newspaper ventures of the seventies and ’eighties of last century; to hold for this long period an unchallengeable position of leadership, and to enter upon its second half-century, superbly housed, completely equipped, and strongly entrenched in the confidence of a great constituency—these are achievements in which the Free Press, on this fiftieth anniversary of its first issue, has a right to take a sober pride. Ihe history of a newspaper is the history of the nation and its people, and the Free Press anniversary number, splendidly illustrated and brightly written, is evidence of its vitality and promise.