PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19762, 13 April 1926, Page 15

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Illustrated newspapers are often spoilt by the reproduced photographs being too obscure to be seen, but such a fault is quite removed from the Bulletin and Scots pictorial, a popular weekly paper with six issues ii one. Most of its news is given in delightfully clear pictures while its reading nutter is of an equally high standard. Adventure of all kinds forms the contents of the Crusoe Magazine for March, “The Island of Magic,” “White Man’s Ju-Ju,” “The Valley of Emeralds,” and “The Adventure Seekers” all being stories of peril and romance in distant lands. The rest of this popular little monthly is devoted to tales provoking laughter, and its many illustrations and jokes help to make it as attractive as it is. For women who yearn to be slim and beautiful, and men who would be healthy and strong, Strength, the magazine that makes physical culture a work-a-day ideal, should nave a strong appeal. Written in simple language, and illustrated by numerous photographs, Strength shows how easy of achievement is the goal of true health, and its exercises for men and women are splendid. It excludes from its pages fiction and all superfluous reading, devoting itself wholly to practical help and suggestion. “The Enchanted Garden” is the name of an enchanting story by Horace Annesley Vachell in the February Windsor. It is compounded of imagination and romance, and is a delight to read.” “Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist,” by Watson Lyle is a personal impression of the composer of the famous prelude and his art. G, B. Stern and Geoffrey Holdsworth tell the story of “The Happy Home,” while Barry Pain, Dorothy Rogers, Ralph Durand, Dornford Yates, Ernest Raymond, Oliver Madon, Hueffer, and Eden Philpotts contribute also. The whole is fully illustrated, and contains a humorous “Editor’s Scrap Book.’!’ The February Royal is full of attractive features. The stage section gives the story of “Nell Gwyn,” with portraits of Dorothy Gish as she appears in the motion picture of that name; Maxine Lincoln tells in confidence (though aided with hosts of illuminating photographs) how to be fashionably slim without fail; “Which Contributes More to Married Happiness —Husband or Wife?” is answered by a symposium of opinions. Ethel M. Dell, Gilbert Frankau, and Robert Hichens are only three of the many authors whose stories give the magazine its distinctive tone.

Cassell’s and The Story-Teller are two magazines of fiction, the first illustrated and including articles, the other devoted wholly to tale-telling. In Cassell’s “The Case of Olga Pennard,” a complete novel by W. L. George, is an arresting story, vyhile John Galsworthy’s serial “The Silver Spoon” continues to lend colour to the claim that it ip “the literary event of the season.” The article “Learning Their Parts,” by famous actors and actresses, is crammed with interest. Contributors to The Story-Teller are Jerome K. Jerome, Warwick Deeping, E. Phillips Oppenheira, Olive Wadsley, Frank H. Shaw, Berta Ruck, Francis Brett Young, etc., and M. L. C. Pickthell is the writer oflong complete novel, “Wilderness Gold.” The Strand Magazine for March is full of fascinating fiction and clever articles besides puzzle and laughter pages. A particularly fine piece of writing is “How I Escaped, from the Harem and Became a Dressmaker,” a romance of real life by Mglek Haroum, the heroine of Pierre Loti’s great romance “Disenchanted,” while another worthy of mention is “Zeebrugge,” by Fenn Sherie, the full story of a wonder film told for the first time. The fiction is very readable, P. G. Wodehouse’s “Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure” being specially so. “Sapper,” E. P. Oppenheira, and A. Conan Doyle are among the celebrities who contribute to this issue.

Hutchison’s Magazine for_ February contains a well-illustrated article on “Dancing in 1926,” including the new French Tango.” fay Santos Casani, as well as a host of first-rate stories by first-rate authors. “Mother’s Misfortune” the story of a hus-band-hunting dame, is among the best things Eden Philpotts has given us; “Virtue,” by Margaret Peterson, tells of a woman’s need for passion, and how. turning to a man other than her husband, she is frustrated by fate; “The Rogue of the Rue Royale,” by William le Queux. is a story of an ingenious marriage hoax which will hold all readers enthralled; and a tale by Roland Pertwee decides the question as to whether a woman can busv herself with outside activities and still maintain the rapture of married love. Berta Ruck, Eliazbeth Mare, Marie van Worst, Eustace Ainsworth and others contribute further stories, while the continuation of Rafael Sabatini’s exciting serial. “Bellarion” will be eagerly followed by all who love live fiction.

A new monthly dealing with the textile industry of Australia has been launched in Melbourne. It bears the title The Textile Journal of Australia, and its purpose is to “obtain and present to readers the latest and best information on all matters of interest to the textile trade;” The magnitude of the textile trade and its many ramification? more than justifies the birth of a journal exclusively devoted to its interests, and the first issue before us, comprising 48 pages and cover, is full of valuable information and instructive comment. There is great scope for such a publication, and wisely managed the Textile Journal of Australia should hare a successful career.

Stories of quality and articles of absorbing interest to readers desiring to add to their stock of general information are to lie found in the March number of Chambers’s Journal. On the fiction _ side there is a fresh instalment of Maurice Walsh s fragrant story, “The Key Above the Door;” “The Quest of Horace Carminow.” by Arthur H. Norway: “To Them That Wait,” by Richard Fisher; “A Fiery Romance,” by T B. Simpson, and other pleasant fare. Paul Tyner contributes some interesting' speculations as to what may be found at the North Pole; “The Storv of the Common Herring,’ is told by G. Norman Morrison, F.Z.S., C. S. Wang has something of unusual interest to tell of Chinese porcelain: and there are many travel and scientific features.

A copy of the second number of The Craftsman, “a news, business,, and service journal for the printing industry,” issued by Messrs Carmichael and Co., of Sydnev. is to hand. It is a clean, clearly-printed sheet, running to eight pages, and dealing with the many phases of the printing trade. Much of interest to the financial and shinning man, and to the many who are interested in the historic Thames, is contained in the February issue of the P.L.A. (Port of London Authority) ionthlv. There is further information concerning London as a great world market and the great financial centre of the civilised world,” with some details of the operations of the Bank of England, Port Engineering Notes and the Use of Reinforced Concrete are supplemented by some facts concerning the discovery, manufacture, and use of Portland Cement, and much little-known information concerning the fisheries of the Port of London is conveyed in a very readable article on the subject. The March number of the New Zealand Surveyor, hich is published quarterly, deals with many vital to the craft of surveying. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, correspondence, a list of licensed surveyors, some notes on the university course for surveyors, and a students’ page are some of the features. We acknowledge uceipt also of the following;—^The New Zealand Journal of Agriculture for March, the New Zealand Draper. Clothier, and Boot Retailer for April, the New Zealand Bakers’ and Grocers’ Review for April. Reports on the recent' conferences in Dunedin are the prominent features of the two last named publications.