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Otago Witness, Issue 3114, 19 November 1913, Page 59

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In the November Windsor Magazine appears a new and entertaining story by S. Macnaughton, another now story by Edgar Wallace, a story of schoolboy life, and another incident in the adventures of an American girl in England. The serial, “The Pathway,” is continued. Anothfy study in wild life is contributed by Charles G. U. Roberts, and there is an interesting article on “The Musical Small-Coal .Man.” “The Development of Rugby hoot ball, by J. E. Raphael, would appear to indicate that there Ls still much conservatism among the players about London. In the fine art department will be found a group of modern pictures inspired by themes from the Bible, including a finely printed coloured plate from Henry Ryland's rendering of Ruth. Some random impressions of London are ihustrated by Harry Furnies. The other illustrations are all good. In Life, the Australian magazine, for November, “Captain Scott’s Own Story” is continued, illustrated by photographs taken bv various members of the ill-fated exjieditfon. This instalment carries the etory to the point when Lieutenant Evans and the others parted from Scott and his companions selected for the final dash. Jack London’s new serial, “The Valley of the Moon,” is continued. Mr Montague Grover writes interestingly of the worlr of a press photographer, and the editor. Dr W. H. Fitchett, of “The Literature of the Groat War.” The regular features of the magazine are up to the usual standard. In the Hibbert Journal for October all of the chief contributions are marked by a cortain stern severity of treatment that is

characteristic of this great quarterly. Where so much excellence is packed into one issue, it is not possible in a phrase or two to give any adequate idea of the sum total. Apart from all that precedes or follows it, however, a impressive article entitled “Some Laymen’s iNeeds,” by Sir Francis Younghusband, impresses us as being the greatest thing in the present issue. This article is intended to represent the point of view of those who from one cause and another have had to abandon most of the religious belief* in which they were brought up, but who have afterwards discovered that underneath those discarded beliefs there lay revealed the deeper sources from which religion eternally springs. It is the confession of faith of a strong mind, one that is full of the knowledge of the world that is, and with a most lucid power of expressing a widely comprehensive sweep of thought. Mr Theodor* Roosevelt’s article, descriptive of the aims of “The Progressive Party” in the United States, is of great interest, as bearing upon, the gross inequalities of the social system not only in America, but everywhere else, ou i Reddio’s article, “The Public Schools and the Umpire,” is outlined a gigantic scheme for the unification of higher education as the one means of ensuring continual national and Imperial life. In hS paper, ‘ Ihe Free Man’s Worship,” Professor Pringle Pattisen deals critically with Mr Bertrand Russell's views on religion. , From the standpoint of the modern man of ‘ informed and open mind this must be classed as one of the very best contributions in the journal. Among other articles of importance wo may mention “International Morality,” by Mr F, W. Leith Ross; “The Evolution of the hocial Conscience Towards Crime and Industrialism,” by Mr E. H, Jones; “The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent,” by Professor John Erskine; and “The Significance of ‘Non-evidential Material’ in Psychica Research,” by Mr Charles E. Ozanno. viboial space is as usual given tp discussions, reviews, and special surveys of philosophy, theology, and social service. (Williams and Norgato; 2s fid net.)