PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19736, 12 March 1926, Page 2

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Less than a year ago an Open Air Schools’ League was formed in Christchurch to investigate problems incidental to school life, with special reference to the establishment of open-air schooling conditions. Evidence of the sincerity and activity of this league is to hand in the shape of the first copy of a 32 p.f. maga zine full of enlightening information concerning the growth of the movement for open-air teaching and other interesting sidelights upon the trend of school teaching. The magazine is to be issued quarterly, and should be an invaluable aid in educating public opinion as to the. need for open-air teaching. An extension of the movement to the other provinces may be looked for. Chambers’s Journal for January leads off with an instalment of a first novel “The Key Above the Door,” by Maurice Walsh, which, judged upon its opening chapters, its delightful setting amongst the lochs and trout streams of Scotland, promises to be full of interest. In addition to the serial there is a budget of fine stories, the contributors including G. Appleby Terrell, Major W. Lloyd Jones, D. 5.0., Wilfrid Benson, and Charles Siddle. The poet Michael Bruce and the “ Ode to the Cuckoo,” the authorship of which is a matter of controversy, are the subject of an article by A. H, Millar, LL.D., who supports the claim that Bruce was the author. Lost pictures are discussed by W. G. Menzies. An indication of the variety offered in the journal may be gained from some of the headings; “ Combs, Ancient and Modern,” " Wild Goose Driving in Macedonia,” “ Norfolk Island ” “ The Real Eldorado,” “ The Hand Goldfields,” “ Homew'ard Bound on a Cattle Boat.” The controversy in the English papers as to the propriety of some of Norman Lindsay's drawings has prompted Percy Lindsay to contribute to the February number of Aussie a full page of humorous drawings portraying the much-criticised Norman as a man who “ at the sight of a leg in the street fainted upon the breast of a policeman.” This latest number of Aussie radiates brightness and merriment from its clever cover design to the last page. Over 50 humorous drawings, humorous stories in plenty, with a sprinkling of verse, go to the making of this jevial eightpence worth. Johannes C. Andersen contributes an interesting article on the Alexander Turnbull Library, of which she is custodian. A copy of the Journal of the New Zealand Institute of Architects for January is to hand. Amongst its many valuable features are a lecture by Mr J. G. Haddew on “An Architect’s Duty as Agent to His Client,” details of America’s war against advertising hoardings, and some nrtes on the establishment at Auckland University College of a chair of architecture. The New Zealand National Review for February offers attractive literary fare of a wddely varied order throughout its well-printed pages. Under the title, “The Real Issue,” the editor discusses Communism versus Civilisation, and urges a plea for more education of the masses in “the hard, true, real facts of the economic world” if civilisation is to be saved and the Empire rescued “from the dire plots against it of its Communist enemies.” “Less Government in Business” is the warning issued by the review in connection with what it terms a dangerous and unwarranted interference in the frozen meat trade, the reference being to the refusal of the Government to allow the Wellington Meat Export Company to sell out to Borthwiek and Sons. Motoring, golf, music, plays and pictures, and current wit from all sources are a few of the other subjects that receive attention in this magazine, which carries a number of attractive illustratu ,s. Copies of the February and March issues of the New Zealand Bakers and Grocers’ Review are to hand. The Review regards with concern the development that has takenj place with regard to wheat control. It maintains that New Zealand might to be independent of outside supplies of wheat, and states that on more than one occasion during the past few years flour stocks have been so low that the slightest hitch in regard to shipping of supplies from Australia would have resulted in a flour famine. Under the title, “Through New Zealand,” the White Star Tourist Services (Ltd.) has issued its official guide for 1920. It is a comprehensive volume, and its information concerning the tSbrist routes and the scenic attractions ofNow Zealand is presented in a very pleasing and readable form. The profusion of its illustrations is one of the striking features of the guide, which includes maps of both islands. The Smith-Wylie Journal for February has, in addition to its budget of afforestation views, an editorial on the Aew find South Seas Inhibition, which is described as “one of the greatest Exhibitions _ hold within the memory of the oldest inhabitant in New Zealand,” having “a special Empire value.” The writer stresses the lesson of the Exhibition which he sums up as “Trade within the Empire.” r J l rtl " c,es ]> y Messrs R. B. Tennant and J. R. Marks, which appeared in the Journal of Agriculture on irrigation, with special reference to the conditions in Central Otago, have been conveniently repi inted in bulletin form. They should prove of great value to settlers in the irrigated and irrigabld areas. acknowledge receipt of copies of the New Zealand Journal of Agriculture for February, the Australian and Now Zealand Trade Journal for January, the January issue of Public Administration, and the January issue of P-L-A (the magazine of the Port of London Authonty), i ' ■ > t * •» * -