PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21544, 16 January 1932, Page 4

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Reflecting the attitude of the Irishman; “if there’s a Government here, I'm agin* it,” cornea from Sydney the first number, or Zest, “a magazine for living Australians.” This ebullient publication professes a large contempt for, and satirical intent towards, practically every institution respected by the common people?. Art and literature in Australia, it states, are moribund, and will have none of them; it is agin’ the New Guard, the churches, universal- suffrage, the laws of libel, the newspapers, the people who control the Australian kinema. The attitude is not unrefreshing when expounded in such iconoclastic publications as the American Mercury, but Zest’s bright contributors quite often contrive to be offensive without being particularly clever or amusing. Mr Ivan E. Sutherland, af regular contributor to the correspondence columns of the Daily Times, reiterates the frequentlyheard warning, “ New Zealand at the Cross Roads” (8d net). His arguments are based on the familiar “undisputed fact” that it is impossible to get the vast resources of production across to the vast. army of consumers because of “ the inherently insecure foundation on which the monetary systems of the world rests.” Mr Sutherland gives us a competent and persuasive exposition of a new system which has recently been praised by several prophets and prpphetesses in our midst. (Budget Printing Co., Ltd.) The December issue of the Round Table is naturally largely devoted to the crisis. Its world-wide character renders any purely national treatment impossible, but an approach is made from several points of view. In the first article the peculiar difficulties of Great Britain are considered; in the second, “The European Problems of the United States,” the American angle is studied; and these articles lead in turn to "The World and the Crisis.” Other articles in this number deal with the fortunes of the Protestant religion, “ Germany in the Storm,” the Manchurian crisis, _and_ the British general election. The New Zealand article describes the manner in which the Dominion is meeting her difficulties. The December number of the Empire Review makes its usual thoughtful contributions to the discussion o!: questions of interest within the British Commonwealth. Among the subjects dealt with are the Indian Conference, the Cyprus revolt, and the East African Report. The Home welcomes _ 1932 with a New Year number that is, like previous issues of this Art in Australia magazine, skilfully edited and beautifully turned out with photographic studies relating to all phases of theatrical, social, and fashionable events in the Commonwealth and beyond.