PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21148, 4 October 1930, Page 4

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

. Tie latest number of Pearson’s Magazine^ (August), is a “great holiday number, containing seven stories and a number of articles., Among the authors represented are Sabitini, Beatrice Grimshaw, A. E. D. Smith, and Michael Kent. The articles include a study of Walt Disney, creator of the famous Mickey Mouse,” and another of P, E. Baily’s “Letters of a pre-war father to his son.” Camera cartoons by Penn Sberie, photographs of entrants in Pearson’s beauty competition and pussies and acrostics, are also to be found. (Prom Gordon and Gotch.) . The current number of the B. P. Magazine (September-November) is a splendid containing many excellent photographic studies oi places and people, several short stories, and a number, of interesting travel articles and sketches. (From Burns, Philo, and Co., Ltd.) “The Great Empire and Imperial Freetrade (2d net) is a study by a prominent American, Mr James W. Gerard, G.C.8., LL.D., a former Ambassador to Germany and former justice of the Supreme Court of New York State, of the economic problems which beset Great Britain. Mr Gerard sees in Empire Freetrade. os propounded by Lord Beaverbrook, the force that will lead Great Britain * out of tbe valloj of despair,” The August- issue of the Woman’s Magazine, edited by Flora Klickman, has a number of stories, pictures, and articles calculated to appeal to women readers. Lady Nora Spencer Churchill contributes an essay entitled "Make Life a Paying Investment,” there is a new part of a serial story by Grace S. Richmond, Ella Ross describes a caravan holiday, and Sioele O’Brien tells of the latest types of light aeroplanes. (Prom Gordon and Gotch.) The annual report on the seventeenth year s operations of the East Mailing Research Station, in Kent, gives details of the work done by the st&tion in promotmg experiments in agriculture. There is much material in this publication of particular interest to fruitgrowers. Every Girl’s Paper for August has the usual selection of bright and informative articles and lively stories for the fairly young reader. Maud Morin has written a novci of cavalier days which is running through this magazine, other story-tellew being Gertrude Bray, M. Ironside, lan Lawson, and Sid Hedges, There are plenty of illustrations. The current number of the Critic, the organ of the University of Otago students, welcomes the last term enthusiastically, and makes a comprehensive report upon recent and proposed activities at the seat of learning. Peter MTntyre, jnn., contributes a cartoon of some University celebrities. Weldon's Bazaar of Children's Fashions for October contains free patterns of a mis frock, aged 11-12 yea*, a child’s sleeping suit, 3-4 years, and other useful garments for the young. There is a compete short story by Charles Douglas entitled A Little Bit of Love.” (Prom Gordon and Gotch,)