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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23529, 18 June 1938, Page 4

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Censorship and the Critic The current issue of the Critic, the publication of the Otago University Students’ Association, contains a quite lively and well-stated debate between the chairman of the Publications Committee and'the Critic’s editor concerning the censoring of an editorial in a recent number. The article referred, under the heading “ Commercialised Emotion,” to an innovation in local kinema theatres, whereby various patriotic pictures are. displayed during the playing of the National Anthem, and was refused admission to the Critic on the ground of unsuitability. The discussion reveals that, while the Publications Committee and the editor may differ concerning this editorial, there is very general agreement as to keeping the columns of the publication open to controversial subjects. In another article the inclusion of University Wbmen in capping concerts is urged, with the assurance that their presence need not interfere with “ the alcoholic arrangements.” Stamp Collecting Douglas B. Armstrong, editor of Stamp Collecting, and philatelic expert of The Times, contributes to Me-srs Blackie’s useful ” Key ” series the volume "A Key to Stamp Collecting’ (Blackie, 8s). The volume is designed as “ a practical Introduction for the philatelic neophyte.” and to provide a simple answer to the oft-repeated inquiry, ’’ Why do people collect stamps?” The author offers expert and lucid advice on the starting of a collection, its planning and arrangement, the study of stamps, the importance of postmarks, and on relevant topics. The book is illustrated with interesting plates, which include several New Zealand issues. I Travel Magazine Paris, expansive yet intimate, nas many of its famous buildings beautiI fully illustrated in the June issue jf the excellent Australasian quarterly travel publication, the B.P. Magazine i (Burns, Philp, and Co., Sydney). Ac- [ companying articles do justice to the charm of the city and the treasures of the Louvre. It is incorrect—and no added attraction to tourists—to state that pilgrims must climb its many steps to reach the Sacre Cceur. In another article Elsie K. Morton describes a visit to Dame Margaret Lloyd George at Cricdeth. The many fine camera studies, several effectively tinted, illustrate various aspects of the social, theatrical, and fashionable scene.