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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23221, 19 June 1937, Page 4

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

The Coronation Mr Punch, who came on the scene just four years too late to celebrate the accession of Queen Victoria, has more than made up for the lapse since then by the loyal welcome lie has Riven to succeeding Sovereigns. His present Coronation Number is fully worthy of the occasion, and of his own honourable traditions. Produced for the first time in the history of Punch wholly in colour, it runs to no less than 64 pages, and from the first page (a fine frontispiece by Sir Bernard Partridge) to the last an exceptionally high standard of humour and craftsmanship is sustained. Pont. Illingworth, Fougasse, Frank Reynolds. Charles Grave, and many more have turned the floodlight of humour on the curiosities and incongruities of Coronation time. Ernest Shepard contributes a characteristically gay double-page cartoon in full colour. Along the bottom of the pages Mr Punch’s own Coronation Procession marches. The June issue of that finely-pro-duced Australian quarterly, the B.P Magazine, also makes a feature of Coronation England, which is the subject of a number of excellent photographic studies of the metropolis and the countryside, and of portraits of tiie personalities of the event. Travel articles with descriptive pictures are several in number, including surveys of aspects of French and African life, while the magazine contains the usual selection of fiction and verse, and notes upon stage and screen artists. The current issue of United Empire, the journal of the Royal Empire 5o-

ciety, marks the Coronation with felicity in several pages of special articles and illustrations, including as frontispiece a representation in attractive colour processes of the historic Coronation chair. The annual report of the society is printed in this issue which contains a full quota of other articles and notes on activities at home and overseas. The Imperial Conference, air and naval defence, migration, Coronation commemoration stamps, arc among the topical subjects of attention by contributors in the current issue of the Empire Review. An article on rearmament in Australia and Now Zealand, of a somewhat discursive nature, is the work of Donald Cowie. Portraits of the King and Queen appear with appropriate editorial comment upon the Coronation. Samoa’s Future

A study group of the Now Zealand Institute of International Affairs issues under the title “Western Samoa: Mandale on German Colony? ” an interesting discussion of the present economic and social status of the Mandated territory with some consideration of the possibilities if it were returned to Germany. It is pointed out that, apart from a natural reluctance on the part of the Dominion to give over a (ask half-acaSnplished, there are important strategic questions which seem to render ceding the territory impolitic. The booklet is well worth the attention of New Zealanders who have a concern with their country’s future.