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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23330, 23 October 1937, Page 4

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

The Countryman Mr Neville Chamberlain has taken time off from his State duties to write briefly for the current issue of the Countryman upon a rus in urbe at Downing Street—the old garden between the famous street and the Horse Guards Parade. Mr Chamberlain describes his experience in persuading a pair of blacks tits to nest in the branches of a lime tree in the garden, but has to record the loss of one of their three eggs to marauders. In the same issue are three photographs of London, taken in the present year by Mr Bernard Shaw, which are worthy of examination, and r holograph reproduction allows Lord Baldwin to recall an 18-mile walk in the vicinity of Idbury, where this distinctive journal is published. In a section devoted to "budgets" for people living in retirement, the advantages and disadvantages of New Zealand for those with an income of £6OO are discussed.

Boxing Len Harvey, heavy-weight champion of the British Empire, is the author of "Modern Boxing" (Blackie, 4s). which appears in this publisher's new series of books on sport, illustrated with the ingenious " moving pictures " device, which shows the exponents in action. Mr Harvey who declares that boxing " represents in all its artifices the game of life itself," proves himself a lucid and literary instructor

Imperial Several New Zealanders are among those depicted in the frontispiece illustration to United Empire, the Journal of the Royal Empire Society, as being in attendance at the fifth Empire Summer School at Oxford. The current issue contains a number of articles on aspects of the discussion at the school, with reports of the addresses of eminent speakers. China in Fiction P. C. Wren has chosen a topical setting for his new novel, "Worthwile." This is the Sin Kiang Province of China, with excursions in Tashkent and the Pathan borderland beyond the North-West Frontier of India. It is published by John Murray.