PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2130, 20 December 1894, Page 30

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The Review of Reviews (Australasian edition) for November contains, in addition to its batch of amusing cartoons aud bright judicial uot s on colonial life and policies, many other foiturci of inter, st. An article on GcorgH Eliot is one that will be psrnsed wilh much n.tercw, and no al«o will the remarkably graphic cbaacter ske eh of Frances Pamer Co be, wuirh canuot fail to prove instructive. There is a'so the story ef a cjolmg tour of 1200 miles iv knicker-boi-kerd; an account of the m«th<>d of arriving at weather forecasts, by C. L Wragge ; a politicnl article by the Hon. G. H. Reid, the Premier of New South W»les ; an illustrated account of the Wai.arapa di-as er; tu.nrtiele uuder the • seductive title of " What Shakespeare Was Like." and other literary pabulum that, will amuse, entertain, and instruct the rencU-ra ot this i opular periodical.

Baily's Magmsine of Sports aud Pastime 3 for Novr mber t-xcols in capitally-executed itlustratans in connection with hunting. The moats a tract. vr is a6t <1 pla»e engraving of the Chiddingford hounds on the trail with the master (Mr 1\ Grah*m Cooper; in the foreground. In addition to this there are n>nu hah 7 dozen wcll-exc-uted process poi baits of the moat noted ma* ers of hounds in Eng'and. The li' erary contents are all on spurts or kindred sutij c's, though by no means devo.dof iutereat to tht) general rta>'er on this score.

The Department ot Agriculture has issued the Keport ot the Government Biologist (Me T. W. Kirk, F.R.M.S., F.L.S , London) for 1893-94, beiug an ex>r*ct irom the Report of the Dot-attineut ot Aguculbure for 1891, and the repurts of the p mol gifts fMeasra W. J. Palmer and J. C. Blackmore), being also extracts from the report of tne D partnv-nt of Agriculture. Being in handy fo<m, tutsa lit'le work* should be m>alu>bl<- to all tn»,»g d in agrii u>tu cor fiui gt..»ing, ai>d the Ur.partnient ia deserving if tvery credit for issuing the rcpo. ts. AI s E. Loft aud Co., boot manufacturers, Royal Arcade, have issued a handm me calen* dar iv tha shape of a viuw of Loch Carron.