PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2416, 28 June 1900, Page 55

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The June number of the New Zealand I!* lustrated Magazine goes very well, and if not actually an advance on former numbers, cer<, tainly shows no signs of falling off in merit.' It is essentially the work of a young peopla in a young land, and if judged as such comes out of the ordeal remarkably well. We arß pleased to note two well-known Witness contributors on the staff — " Fabian Bell," whose! name is well known wherever the Witness circulates, and Miss Hodgkins, whose first appearance as a black and white illustrator was made under the auspices of the Otago Witness Christmas Number, 1898. An 'interesting illustrated article on "Lacrosse" as played in New Zealand, one on "Landscape and Life in Japan," and a continuation' of the articles on " Trout Fishing in New Zealand ' are among the best contents of thg number.

Austral Light for June does not call fop any special comment other than is comprised in the statement that it is an unusually "heavy" number, and can scarcely hope to interest any but a very limited circle of readers

The May number of the Windsor Magazine opens with an article by Francis Philliniore'on " Lady Butler and Her Art," which cannot ' fail' to whet the desire so often expressed during the present war — that England's finest battle painter were at work once more. "On 3 Dutch Bulb Farm," -with its accompanying illustrations, is another article which plea- ■ santly entervenes between the usual liberal ' allowance of fiction, while the extremes of heat and cold find their brilliant exponents* in the two articles headed respectively ' Hottest Heat and Electrical Furnaces " and " Two Thousand Miles in tho Antarctic Ice." There is no magazine of like calibre which' in our opinion touches tho "Windsor in this year's standard of variety and interest.

On Saturday week a little girl, about six years old, had a marvellous escape- from serious injury at Nelson. Playing about above a steep face, the child, frightened by a cow, ran too close to the edge of the bank and fell over. The dead branch of a gumtree fortunately happened to intervene, and broke the fall of tbe child, so that she reached the ground 30ft below without more injury than a few scratches and bruises.