PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Otago Witness, Issue 2604, 10 February 1904, Page 30

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

The Hum is tho title of an artistically p-infc(d Now Zealand annual, a copy oi v, l-.ch roaches us irom Messrs W. J. Prictor aijd Co , Princes street. The Huia is a literary rnoduct'on pure and simple, tic iditor, in* hit. preface, stating that "it was -nirted as an experiment, with the intention of bringing into focus the literary tale-rit v. h'c'i is faltered ov?r Now Zealand." Tti (ivs the cciitT has ceitairjy succeeded beyond his ant'cipatioiiS. a-s fully a score of ucl'-knowu New Zoahmd literary names are ppii< r.'l >d io the 30 pxce'lent contnbutions vi hie') go to n;.iJ:p up the. annual. Among these Cir^ mnnv Witness fn'\ouritps. includmic .Te=-ie Mrckay. John Pcrnel, J. Moe-len-'ipn. Johannes C. AmW-pn. A. B. and Mary H. Poyu^r, R Lii/.cv, and cve 1 ) " Emmeline " hrT=clf. v. i'O contributes a capitil httle tale entiTled " Twice 7." The contents are varied avd ir>U resting, and if slice-ceding isvi."-; of Tbp Huia are- ?" good rppdinpr as the one under notice its success may be looked upon as assured.