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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20283, 16 December 1927, Page 14

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The place of honour in Chambers’s Journal for Novemoer is accorded to a story, named “ Ottilie,” by Sir George Douglas,— a story of love and intrigue, the swift course of which is completed in 13 short chapters. The remaining contents of the issue are of the very varied character that is a distinguishing feature of the journal. There is none of its . numbers that does not convey valuable instruction to its readers. The Strand Magazine had temporarily forsaken its familiar title page depicting a corner of the crowded thoroughfare from which it takes its name. It has, however, reverted to it, and the feature of the November issue that is specially indicated on this page is the continuation of an adventure story by Sir A. Conan Doyle, entitled “ The Maracot Deep ” —an uncanny tale, the end of which is not yet unfolded. Complete stories are provided by Cosmo Hamilton, Stacy Aumonier, H. A. Vachell, H. de Vero Stacpole, G. R. Malloch J. H. Turner, and Edgar Jepson and Hugh Clevely (the last-mentioned two in combination) ' and other interesting contributions are by H. Ashton-Wolfe, who supplies a fresh case from his crime-book, O. h'. Luke, and Arthur Lawrence. The Empire Review for November contains a number of interesting articles, most noteworthy of which is a most readable review by Mr Augustine Birrell of the Earl of Birkenhead’s ‘ Lord, Life, and Letters,” and an appropriate pendant is furnished in the reproduction of Lord Birkenhead’s speeches on the occasion of the unveiling of the war memorial at Neuve Chapelle The other contents of the issue are upon the level which has given the Empire Review a high place among the monthly publications of Great Britain. The man who is tired of “ fluffy ” stones and likes good full-blooded adventure tales, will find plenty of them in the November number of the Wide World Magazine. Thev include “ The Secret of Still Valley,” “Water’ “The Strain,” “The Lucky Seven,, and “ Witchcraft,” while among travel articles there are “Kite-Fighting in Siam,” “On the Trail of the Thirstiand Trekkers,” and another amusing instalment of “ Through Spain in Disguise.” “ Man and His Needs ” is specially interesting in this issue. The latest fashions are described with charm in the October number of Woman the magazine of beauty-culture, health, home-decoration, fashions, and fiction both photographs from models and_ black-and white drawings being used as illustrations. Cosmo Hamilton, G. E. Jennings, Ethel Mannin, Lady Angela Forbes, and Anne DufEold contribute articles and stories, and “Poise—A Woman’s Birthright,” by Mrs Scott Allan, will be of interest and practical help to all readers. Oscar Wilde’s humorous story of the Canterville ghost in the Golden Book Magazine for October, makes a subtle contrast to Honor© de Balzac’s “La Grande Bretacho,” where horror of the first order is revealed in the last paragraph. The Man end the Snake,” by Ambrose Bierce, is a study in auto-suggestion, while Teja is an arresting one-act drama by Hermann Sudermann, telling of an incident in the time of the early Goths. _, _ Margaret Kennedy, author of The Com stant Nymph,” contributes the fifth _ part of her new serial “Red Sky at Morning to the October number of the Royal Magazine and proves afresh what a pastmistress of fiction she is. Margaret Chute describes Ronald Colman the “ mysteryman of Hollywood,” Diana Bourbon discusses the question as to where woman’s present tendency towards masculinity will eventually lead her. and Charles B. Cochran tells of the big boxing fights he has recently staged in England. A new poem by A. A. Milne. “ The Emperor’s_ Rhyme, is of special merit in a good issue. , The ideas of that precocious young modern Beverley Nichols, on housecraft as nnactised (a) by women and (b) by men make a most divertin'* afticle in th e Ociober number of the English magazine Good Housekeeping, while particularly mtere-Hn to parents is the opening article in a series dealing with the choice of schools and other educational prob em S> by Mar.an Be.hel The fashion section is enlarged,in tribute tethl new mode., and the this month contains attract! items. The fiction is of a standard calco lated to please all readers. r or We have received the New t”®". ‘ December, a distinctly art.st.c production.