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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23691, 24 December 1938, Page 4

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

International Mr Vernon Bartlett in the current issue of World Review (40 William IV street. W.C. 2) examines critically the policy which he finds enunciated in the Munich agreement, and suggests an uneasiness that the British Government " quite deliberately makes vital decisions when Parliament is not in session, that unparalleled precautions are being taken to keep news away from the newspapers. In an interview—his first—with St. John Philby. King Ibn Saud describes the Balfour declaration as a great injustice to th' 1 ’ Arab peoples, “Is it possible,” he asks, “to imagine a greater calamity than taking away the lands and dwellings of the Arabs forcibly and handing them over to others?' Why does Europe criticise Germany and others for turning out the Jews from their countries in which they are a minority and not find fault with herself for scheming to turn the Arabs out of their country in order that the Jews may dwell therein? ” United Empire the journal of the Royal Empire Society, includes an article on Australian art in its December is«ue. which contains adequate illustration. As frontispiece is a black and white study in Westminster Cath edral. In the other aVficles among matters discussed are German economics. the trouble in Palestine, and Roman Catholic missions overseas The Periodicals Some excellent camera studies ''ot Batavia, an article on the Temple of Angkar, notes and pictures on the Russian ballet, films and the theatre a number of tinted photographs ot film personalities, fiction and verse are among the contents ot the splen-didly-produced summer number of the B.P. magazine, published bv Burns Philp. at Sydney The New Zealand Magazine (bnx 399 Wellington, Gd). first published in 1921 issues a December number containing articles on many aspects of the Do minion scene. The contributors in dude the Speaker of the House, who writes on a national immigration survey as a first renuiremenf in extending the migration provisions: and Eileen Duggan, who provide' a characteristically charming picture of Motueka The numerous illustrations include reproductions of three of Elizabeth Kelly’s portrait studies. School Magazine The Christ's College Register for thV final term of 1938 contains a full report of the activities of the school and of the Old Boys’ Association It is illustrated with several plates. Including reproduction of a portrait of Archbishop Julius, the former Warden of the school, which hangs in the Memorial Hall Book Catalogue Catalogue 434 from B. H. Blackweh. of Oxford, lists some 1500 titles in Oriental literature, covering the Near and Far East, with a selection of Africana, and including old and recent publications*