PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 3335, 13 February 1918, Page 46

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The December number of the Storyteller (Cassell and Op.) is in its way a meritorious production,' the stories being of* a nigli class They hold -the' attention of the reader, and* are original in conception. The writers have all made a name, -for themselves. They include, Annie Steel, Sax Kohmer,. Warwick Deeping, J. U. Curwood Andrew Soutar. etc. Percival Gibbon contributes a long, complete novel with the unusual title of "Miss Pilgrims Progress. Wo have to acknowledge receipt or a 12-paged pamphlet, being the second' on sooial problems, entitled " Thrift, or the Secret of Money-making," by Dr Gordon Macdonald. The writer explains what thrift is and what it is not, when to practise it, who should practise it, and why, what are the methods, what are the benefits, and in conclusion some illustrations. Real thrift is a virtue, but to make money with the average savings of a working man luck and good health are essential. ■ ~ . , ... We "have received an illustrated booiclet from the Discharged Soldiers' Information Department, which conveys a fair idea ot what is being done in findin-r employment for returned men. training and re-educatinpf the partially disabled, and provision of employment on the termination of the war. The illustrations show what is being done in the way of training men.