PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 3315, 26 September 1917, Page 48

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The annual report of the Dunedin Chamber of ,Commerce, published in pamphlet form, is to hand. It includes the annual report, the full text of the retiring address reviewing the chief events of the year by Mr George Fenwick, useful statistical tables relating to the trade and commerce of Otago and New Zealand, and the revised scale of mercantile charges. "Is Religion Growing or Declining?" is the title of a pamphlet by Frederick J. Gould, a copy of which we have received from Messrs Watts and Co., London. ' The question is offered for consideration to all religions and all classes. After reviewing the position the author's conclusion is that relig.on is growing, not decaying. "The religion of humanity," he writes, "is not a sort of now progress beginning afresh after casting away old superstitions. It is a passion for service of family, country, and humanity, which has arrived at a consciousness of the long unfolding of the human soul from the earliest times, through many stages of religious thought and practice to this latest moment of evolution."

We to acknowledge receipt of a pamphlet on Agricultural Education, being a reproduction of a series of four newspaper articles by Mr Charles C. Ross, assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Missouri, with which is connected the Vic torian fitate Agricultural College. _ The pamphlet is largely devoted to giving an account of the theoretical and practical work aonc at the Dookie and Longerenong Agricultural Colleges, Victoria.

We have received from the Minister of Public Health a copy of the annual report of the Department, No. 3 of the Journal of the Department of Public Health, Hospitals and Charitable Aid containing much that is of interest to members of Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards; also a pamphlet on "Social Diseases: What women should know about them, and why," by Dr Plates Mills. The latter should be in the hands of all mothers.