PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 3488, 18 January 1921, Page 44

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The Christmas number of the Strand Magazine is to hantl from Messrs George Newnes, Ltd., a leading feature of the number being the description by Sir A. Conan Doyle of “Fairies Photographed,” with reproductions of the photograph, which an expert photographer declares to be from two negatives “entirely genuine, unfaked photographs of single exposure, open air work, showing movement in the fairy figures.” Sir Conan Doyle accepts the pnoto with some caution, and would like to see the experiment repeated. He confesses himself unable to get the true bearings of the event. Other Christmas features include an illustrated story, “From Chrysalis to Butterfly”; “Animal Caricturists,” “Heroines, New and Old,” Christmas Puzzles,” etc. The opening chapter of a new serial by Ethel M. Dell, entitled “Withcut Prejudice” are published, and there are complete short stories by E. Phillips Oppenheim. W. W. Jacobs. F. B. Austin, P. C. Wodehouse, and other popular writers. A very large number of illustrations are in colours, and the number is interesting and good value for the price oharged. The Christmas number of Outward Bound, an illustrated magazine recently started, is to hand. It is an interesting number, with features quite .novel. In a “Chime of Christmas Bells” Mr William Canton briefly traces Christmas Day as it goes round the world. “In Bethlehem’s Fields.” “The First Arabic Christmas Card,” “Christmas All Alone.” “Nazareth Nights,” and “Caravans to Bethlehem” are the captions of other Chirstmas reading. Mr John Buchan’s serial “The Path of a King” is continued. There is a character sketch of Mazo Nitobe, the Japanese secretary of the League of Nations, and an account by a special correspondent of “Vienna’s Black Christmas.” Housewives will be intersted in “A Chinese Housewife in Her Kitchen.” with some Chinese recipes. Alfred Noyes contributes a poem on Christmas, and there is a short story bv Beatrice ITarraden, and another by Satti C’hatterji. The number is fully illustrated.