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Otago Witness, Issue 2201, 7 May 1896, Page 38

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The April number of the Pull Mall Magazine teems with the mott txquii>ite enjoyment for all lovcra of artistic illustration. The pictures are nlwity« a fpature of tLit iuxuiious magazine, Ira 1 , tli« number under notice is es^<=oi»lly rich in lovely thi* g«. The ttmies, too, are uuusuv.llj good this time, end being most of them complete), the magazine becomes * charming pre-rnt to send to » frieDd in the country. There is an intensttik g article (beautifully illustr*t»d) on "Kn;>le *od it« Memoriea," another on " The Liv.rp.vol Di>rkfi,"> and a dt-eply interesting one mol '"Is Cbrih~ian R« union Possible ?" by VisL-uunt Httlit»x aud the Bishop of Sodor and Man. The tstri&l story by Sir Walter Besunt ountinnes, and there is another in»t*'cnrnt of those interesting articles oa "Seavtsin Civih.'r. J '"

Standard* Porfnlio of Piotnreß No 14 ii to hand f'Orn Messrs Prieror and Ormitby. The jcr>ri) r nts are varied by g*rh< rings from the Occi 'enfc, the Orieut, and the New WWId, though that of the lattt-r pVitains somewhat of the Orient, for it in a re pi exentation of a Chiuese butcher and vcgt-tahle shop in tho Chinese qnauter of San Fra> oisoo. Among the pictures in this number are 6b. Paul's Cathedral,, the Poets' Corner at Westminister, a charging view of Rotterdam with its miles of river shipping, and Napoleon* gnrgoous carriage, which Would app&irnrly make tu.r<d work to draw .it for at lent hix horjen, &o. Thi» in certainly not the loMit interesting of this capital series.

"The Golden P«tnny" is tha fcifclo of one of the numeron* penny papers on the liaes of Tib Bi«? now' published in Ei. g!»nd. The issue of March 28 i» termed a. "double colonial number " Th-i main feature* of the paper appear to bo Eon«&tional shwrfc tales and riddle competitions for money prizes.