PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23885, 12 August 1939, Page 4

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

New Zealand University Rostrum, published by the. New Zealand University Press Bureau at one shilling is the first number of a Quarterly which is designed to present the opinion of students and graduates of all four university colleges in the Dominion. In this issue, which is wellproduced and edited, are several articles, informative and thoughtful in tone, including an examination of the place of the library in the university by John Harris, and “ New Zealand and the Ideal University,” by F. A de la Mare, and a number of contributions in prose and verse which bespeak the lively interest of students in matters literary and controversial. The Critic, the newspaper of the University of Otago Students’ Association, in its latest issue presents again a topical and alert review of recent and coming events. Australia The first issue of a new quarterly, Australia, National Journal, published by Sydney Ure Smith, the founder of the Art in Australia publications, reflects on every page the excellence of display and typography to be expected under this sponsor. The journal is to be devoted to art, architecture, industry and travel, and its first number, which contains finely illustrated pages on each of these subjects, accompanied by a text at once informed and literary, is one of great promise. It is in every way a handsome magazine.

Employee-Partnership In the July issue of the New Zealand Economist and Taxpayer Mr H. VaHer, who for the past 20 years has worked for the cause of employee-partnership in industry, provides an examination of the principles of the system which he advocates, and an outline of tne manner in which the scheme may be given practical expression in New Zealand industry.

who for the past 20 years has worked for the cause of employee-partnership in industry, provides an examination ol the principles of the system which he advocates, and an outline of the manner in which the scheme may be given practical expression in New Zealand industry. Royalty In Canada The world famous C.P.R. system naturally had a proud part in the transportation of the King and Queen during their Canadian tour. To celebrate a memorable occasion the company issued a special passenger list forthe Empress of Britain, which is handsomely produced, with paintings in colour by Charles W. Simpson, and a brochure containing many photographs of the Royal visitors and their subjects during their Canadian tour. Our copies of these publications are from the New Zealand agem for the C.P.R. Wool Publicity The enterprise of the International • Wool Publicity and Research Secretariat is attested afresh in the publication of a series of six lectures on wool, which are being issued to schools, along with a booklet of suitable illustrations. The talks have been prepared with particular attention to the needs of children of 11 t 0 14. and we are advised by Mr F. S. Arthur the New Zealand representative on the Secretariat that within a week of publication 6000 requests for copies had been received in Great Britain alone. * betrayal/* Mr Chamberlain maintains with impressive logic, was Herr Hitler’s breaking of his word. The last speeches in the book, dated immediately after the Czechoslovakian seizure, show that the sterner attitude of the Government, as evidenced in the smaller nations