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Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 39

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1 The Maroh number of tho Pall MftllTVlagazino if, as usual, artistically illustrated throughout, commencing with a beautiful frontispiece, " One Pinch." " A Revival of Old London Bridga " tells tha stoty o? tins faraouß bridge, wbich by some is held to date b.ick to the third century. Afc th« time of Henry VIII ih« bridge was a curious und quaint sttuefcurp, with its shops, houses, towers, and on tho central pier a large chapal. Not less interesting in tb.-'i paper on " Ctlimis Oastl*?," by ]j<vdy Glai'V.s, with its historic inemorits made tawout m "Macbeth." tiara?, notes on beagliug appec.r undor "Sports of ibe Month."' "MtKk-ra Express Pissengsr Trains " indicates tb'i won-lerf ol progress ninde in the coustruccion oE locomotives. Dealing with the lafqr.c type fot fc'ue North-Eatfcavu Company, with it? 7£t. 7iin J coupled driving wheels, tho writer quotes ft-oni an artJele contributed by the Londoa eora:apondent of this paper to the Engineer to aJiow how smoothly aud easily, withoutbcinßpreFflSi?, this locomotive achieve it a gpped oi! 70 tniiea an hour, drawing a lo«d of 24-8 ton 1 ". " Ths Sfccrw of 1812 " is continued, and there are short; stories, poems, sketches, aud the first part of a paper on " The Major Tactics of Cheos," wbil* the late R. L. Stevensoo's serial " St. fves " is oonfcioced. 1 The "Bflriy Adventures in Au»tr»lian j "\Wter* " continues to interest raadsrs of. the Ausiral Light. The quaint illustrations fay ' Uie author, Mr George Cullhigfridg*, lend aa ' es»>tcial ch»>m to thie interesting sorics ol ; arlicie". This magazine if redoieofc of ti,<s scij. • and toe April number contains articles en the j viilngtt gettltttnent movement and on icsd law I by dnTsre.ut urite.rs. Tho other coritenta iw-t j varies, »nd include several article on purety j O-.'oholic topics. ! Tb.6 E'&mily Huvld tor Marc' 1 " iirecvatu its ' uhi i! infr.rc'jhing aud varied leleoSkm of rcs-dir^ ! lnfttter to its iuauy readers. The stories «ro limuerou?, bufe they are plentifully interlarded *vmL *. good rejection of i»eK3rs»,l reading. Tlki tVr^speiiijy novel comprising ths Mario I number of the Moalhly Magazine of Fiction in \ bniibleii '• Th» Bepsn'cancs of Kate Dalryaiple." 1 It i* suitable reading for a railway journey or x ; spare ha'^-hour. j 3?or the intsreat of itn literary wnleßto and ' the variety of its illustrations the SJavica -. number of the "Review of Reviews exoeJH itsetf. | A ha»fcy glanoe over the pages of this excellent u'j.iibf-r oaunot fail ro surprise thfl rsaderof tho ' n»j.r>3' lutcrsstißg occurrences of the uaonfcb, inofifc i ot which are only read day by day f.o slip out ' of jiutnocy *s noon as somethisig ot uaovc rectnii interest crops up io take Ihviir yliuit-. One or' tha iticsi; intaroiiiDg of the regular Secures oi Uie Review is the Biok of the Monbh, and when it is mentioned that the work uaderrevibw tbis usonth is " Porty-oao Years in India,"' by FieldmM'ihal Roberts, it need scarcely be said thaft t/ue pagfc i« t'ul! of interest. Thti militant j^us i pecvsdei tlu- <vholfl number, for not; only me tiiw I R-v. \V\ H. Fitchett's sketches "The h'i?}vn at \ tho Fi&g'' t:ojiti;iued, Rodney aud b,'i-Ks?e &t*>ha j Battle or the SaLifcs b«ing »Jiilt wir'j, bub Me I Steid Imh an appreciafcory notic* of th« 'fzet [ Nicholas I, whomj proposal tr Engiaud. for '.he boHlemest of *he lOaßtern. question iv 135S were rejected with saoh disa-tous results. Tne arbitration proposals beiwee; 1 . Er.g'-.s-.i and the United Statcsof course rtceivijalttf.it/on, and Tighe Ryau deals with a purr.iy colon. alfiubjeofc in his illnsfcrated arhiclo on " The Auscre-lian Girl." The second of the series of articles oa her Majesty the Queeu deals with. " Tho Queen and the Empire " ; wbile the Topic of tha Month is " Ireland's Little Account with hef Dominant Partner," by W.. T. Stead.