PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2410, 10 May 1900, Page 52

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

' The Windsor Magazine for March is an excellent number,- opening with a very well illustrated paper oh "The Mecca Pilgrimage " ; "Up and Down a Mexican Volcano " is another interesting article, and " Where Tommy's Weapons Are Made" yet another. Q,ther articles pleasantly qualify the fiction of the number, which is fairly good, though Mr Boothby's " Long Live the King," both in matter and illustration, is decidedly not worthy the place of leading serial. ThV-Pall Mall Magazine is, as usual, most gratifying to the eye. A very noticeable article, as' showing the possibilities of artistic charm to be reached by pen and camera in unison, is " Our Wood," by Barrington MacGregor. " Reminiscences of the Zulu War, 1870 " is an interesting article, as also is that on " The Paris Exhibition, 1900." There are several other well written and beautifully illustrated articles, and the fiction, headed by Mrs Steele's Indian story, " The Hosts of the Lord," is excellent. A coloured drawing of '"Spring" constitutes the frontispiece.

We have received a copy of Wise's 1900-1901 Directory for the Provincial District of Canterbury, a work of much value in Otago to those who have trade connection or interest with tl\e ' sister province. The Canterbury Directory (now in its eighth issue) is an up-to-date, careful, and systematically arranged work of some 440 large pages, reliable and easy of reference, of much ,value to business men and useful to others. First comes a directory of the smaller towns and townships in Canterbury, from Adair to Yaldhurst, the sit.ua--tion, distances, and public facilities of each being given at the head of an alphabetical list of the .inhabitants. Then follow directories of Lyttleton, Timain, and Chrislchurch, street by street. After these come an alphabetical list of the householders and business firms of the province, with addresses; and a directory of trades and professions, and educational and local Government directories, with handy information about each local government district; a Hst of sheep-farmers with their tallies, and much other useful information. The directory was printed at the office of the Otago Daily Times and Witness Company (Limited), and bound by the Evening Star Company (Limited).

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