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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20691, 13 April 1929, Page 4

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“Australia Beautiful” is the title of the Easter pictorial number of Home, the Australian magazine, and is the title also of all the letterpress that- the issue contains, this being an article by Mr Bahd°lph_ Bedford,. lamenting the ignorance exhibited by Australian people concerning the glories of their own country.' Of these glorias “Australia Beautiful” supplies comprehensive illustrations in colour plates and black and white, all of which are executed with, an artistic, delicacy and excellence that compel admiration. The illustrations provide a happy blend of urban and rural scenes, and of sea studies .arid of landscapes, and the whole form-'a collection of distinct value.

An interesting feature of the March number of the Strand Magazine ig an article by Clifford Hosken on “Main Street, London,” this main street being the historic thoroughfare from which the magazine took its name. The photographs by which it is illustrated afford an instructive comparison of the Strand of to-day with the Strand of a quarter of a century ago, and show the change that is coming over the face of London—a change due to the revolution in transport as well as to the modernisation of the buildings. Mr P. G. Wodehouse, Mr H. de Vere Stacpoole, Mr W. Townend. Denis Mackail, Mr C. E. Montague, Miss Ethel Dell, and Mr A'. Parsons contribute fiction to the issue, and Mr Mark Hambourg writes on “Man versus Machine in Music” and Mr • Russell Thorndike on “ Sybil Thorndike Herself.” In Chambers’s Journal for March, Mr J. L. Cope emphasies the value of Polar exploration as an aid to meteorology and argyes that the results of Polar research can become of vital importance in elucidating problems that bear on public wellbeing and the march of civilisation. Mr Garrett Radcliffe and Mr L. C. Donthwaite are the authors of serial stories in the journal, which, as has been its practice throughout its existence, contains also a selection of informative articles. “ The British Commonwealth, Freedom and the Seas ” is the title of the first article in the ’March issue of the Round Table.» The writer suggests a scheme which would enable Whitehall to consult colonial opinion in London before taking political action which is likely to prove contentious. As to the economic problem, an Economical Conference is suggested which should meet at the same time as the next Imperial Conference, An article, “Towards Industrial Renaissance,” paints a dark picture of the present position of Great Britain, but points out that she still has great natural advantages, and that there is nothing to prevent her from recovering her prosperity if she sets about it in the right way. Among the other "contents of the number is an article discussing the position of each of the political parties at Home in relation to the approaching election, and one in which the writer expresses the opinion that possibility of having to take office is having a sobering effect upon Mr de Valera.