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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22326, 28 July 1934, Page 4

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World (Is 9d net) is the title of a new monthly review of international scope which has-as, its editor Mr Vernon Bartlett, the well-known English publicist. In his introductory article the editor, citing acute nationalism as the greatest menace to peaceful world relations to-day (he mentions the Home agricultural policy as tending inevitably to alienate the dominions from Great Britain), expresses the belief that breadth of mind and sanity of judgment on the part of the public “ can help to lead a world that has gone temporarily mad away from the dangers of nationalism towards something constructive.” The purpose of World is to provide this understanding, to which end it contains, in abbreviated form, articles from journals throughout the world expressing various viewpoints on current questions. The scope of the articles is wide, and they come from many sources, English. American, European, and Eastern (from Chatto and Windus). , ’Mr Tom Shield’s ‘‘The Cartoonist (Is net), in which this experienced black and white artist gives brief instruction, with illustrations, to beginners in the art ot caricature and sketching, is now reissued by Robertson and Mullens in a second edition. A companion volume, Drawing Expressions,” by the same author, is also published, wherein the tyro is given advice in depicting facial expression. The association of Captain Cook With the cottage at Great Ayton, built by ns father, and to which he returned alter his voyage of 1771-72. is traced in a booklet bv Hermon Gill. “ Captain Cook s Cottage” (Is net; Lothian Press. Melbourne). f j lie writer nlso provisos an account ot the successful negotiations by nlneli, 111 rough the action of Mr Russell G rnuwade, the cottage was purchased ami recreated in the Filzroy Gardens, Melbourne, as a memorial to the great explorer. Ihe booklet is illustrated with drawings. Messrs Kcwbolds, of Dunedin, have issued a catalogue listing some •> volumes from their shelves, including a selected list of K.cw Zealand books and English publishers’ “remainders.. Interesting New Zealand items include Bracken’s “Flowers of the Free Lands, published in Dunedin in 1877, and the first (and only) issue of Zealandia, a projected literary monthly, published in Dunedin in 1889. The Bodleian Library With the last quarter of 1933 the first 10 years were completed of the campaign undertaken to fill important gaps in the Bodleian Library's collections, a list of desiderata being published in each issue of the Bodleian Quarterly Record. Of the 1013 items advertised 083 have been acquired.