PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Otago Witness, Issue 3035, 15 May 1912, Page 48

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

"The greatest marvel in magazine publishing," is the claim set up, and, no doubt, with good reason, for the April number of Casse'T's Magazine of Fiction and Popular Literature. It is, so far as we know, the largest magazine in the world, and is sold for 6d. It contains 264 pages, with illustrations. There are no less than 23 complete stories, and one long novel of 30,000 word.*, besides several illustrated articles, fashion information, and other matter. Among the contributors are such wellknown writers as H. G. Wells. Captain F. H. Shaw, Alice and Claude Askew, Andrew Soutar, Fred M. White, T. W. Hanshe-w, and many others. Never before has such value in "magazines been offered for 6d as this April number of Cassell's Magazine of Fiction and Popular Literature. This bulky number succeeds the well-known Cassell's, and contains nearly three times the quantity of matter formerly in that magazine. Messrs Cassell and Co are to be congratulated on their enterprise, and no doubt the venture will go a long way towards meeting the present-day demand for fiction. We have to acknowledge receipt of the special Empire number of the Amateur Photographer and Photographic News. It deals with the great of photography, and has a number of tine pictures on art paper, printed in colours, indicating some of the many directions in which the amateur can apply his hobby. There are a great number of practical, useful, and elementary articles with specially compiled information

for travellers in foreign countries concerning Customs duties and facilities- for travel; also reviews of new apparatus. The number is a most creditable one, and should prove of great assistance to the amateur. t We have received from the author a pamphlet entitled "The Coming Christ, and the Order of the Star in" the East." It is a reprint of a paper read to a meeting of clergy and other members of the Church of England in London in November, last year, by the Rev. C. W. Scott-Moncrieff, M.A., late Warden of St. John's College, Auckland, N.Z. With the pamphlet were leaflets—one giving the objects of the Order of the Star of the East, and the other a description of the happenings at a meeting of the Order held at Benares Convention.

The Storyteller for April, to hand from Messrs Gordon and Gotch, contains a long complete novel, "Brotherhood's Bondage," by Greville Hammerton, and short stories by Blanche Eardley, May Edgenton, Captain F. H. Shaw, Andrew Soutar, and other writers,_ including a further instalment of the series entitled "The Virgin Fortress," by Max Pemberton. The Triad for May has some interesting original articles. In the illustrated supplement are reproductions of paintings of three situations in "Die Walkure."