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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19738, 15 March 1926, Page 8

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The February number of “The Home, the monthly journal issued by Art in Australia (Ltd.), well maintains the standard expected of this publication. Its special features are indicated in the fact that it is a house and garden number, a circumstance which should commend it very widely. As it is editorially observed, the issue reproduces some of the vvork of architects who are now striving in Australia "to produce houses which are something far more than mere water-tight shelters for eating and sleeping. Each year others are emerging from the Sydney University and bringing a fresh outlook into the offices of experienced firms. .there may yet be some hope of a national arcliitecture in the future. Homes and gardens, of course, provide exceptional opportunities for profuse illustration, and that verv beautiful homes and gardens abound in Australia is convincingly attested in the pages of this volume. Articles by Mr Hardy Wilson on domestic architecture and by Professor E. G. Waterhouse and Mr M. R. Shelley on domestic gardening provide instructive reading. To social matters “The Home devotes, as usual, much space. There arc camera studies galore depicting interesting people, scenes, and events. The footsteps of Huxley in Australia are retraced by Mr U. H. Bertie. In the lighter literary vein the piece de resistance is another excerpt from the late William Cain’s “Methods of Mendoza,” a delightful episode. Sir A. Conan Doyle’s story, The Band of the Mist.” which is in effect Spiritualistic propaganda, is continued in the February number of the Strand Magazine, and is only one of several features that make the issue unusually readable. There arc short stories by P. G. Wodebouse, "Sapper,” ami K. Phillips Oppenheim, whose names themselves constitute a recommendation of the magazine literature contributed by ti m, and other entertaining little stories are supplied by Gerald Villicrs Stuart and F, G. L. Fairlie. In addition, there is an account told by Mclck H annum of how she escaped from a harem, and there is a highly interesting story of how the film descriptive of the Zeebrugc raid was constructed.