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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21598, 19 March 1932, Page 4

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

It was one hundred years ago, on February 4, 1832, that Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, as it was then called, first saw the light, its purpose being fervently stated by William Chambers: “ . . . to take advantage of the universal appetite for instruction which at present exists; to supply to that appetite food of the best kind, and in such form, and at such a price, as must suit the convenience of every man in the British Dominions.” The aspirations of the editor were in part prophetic, when we remember the inadequacy of. this Dominion as it then existed —or did not exist—to -take advantage of the instruction that Chambers’s offered; but those aspirations have been most nobly fulfilled. In a supplement to the February issue of Chambers’s Journal Mr W. Forbes Gray outlines the interesting associations and landmarks in the magazine’s career, and recalls the number of' distinguished, men who have been its contributors and in many cases its discoveries. Readers in all parts of the Empire will join in wishing the wellknown Scottish journal a further hundred years of useful and entertaining existence

The Home, the monthly magazine issued by Art In Australia, naturally concentrates in its March number upon the festivities in connection with the opening of the Harbour Bridge. It might have been thought that this impressive structure had already been photographed from every conceivable angle, hut Harold Cazneaux. that excellent outdoor photographer, has discovered many new opportunities for interesting “ shots.” Publication of the interesting collection of hitherto unpublished letters of Dickens to an old friend, Frank Beard, comes to an end ■with the February number of the Strand Magazine, which carries, in addition, several articles of general interest and stories by P. G. Wodehouse, Robert Hichens, de Vere. Stacpoole, Denis Maekail. and F. E. Bally. A thoughtful article on India is contributed by Mr Wardlaw-Milne, M.P., to the February issue of the Empire Review. Mr Wardlaw-Milne points out that the section representing moderate thought in India has an opportunity now of_ declaring itself in support of the administration—failure to do so will retard progress in India for a generation at least. Mr Charles Cunningham writes on tattooing among the early Maoris, and recalls the days when a brisk trade was done in tattooed heads, the demand being so brisk that even slaves were decorated in order that their market value should be increased. ’