PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 3556, 9 May 1922, Page 50

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

My Magazine for March is included in a package to hand from Messrs Gordon and Gotch. Edited by Mr Arthur Mee, this publication is devoted to giving articles on interesting subjects calculated to instruct and entertain. Opening with an article on the planet Mars, particulars are given of the steps to be taken to get a closer view of this neighbour world of ours. ‘'Wordsworth’s Broken Dream” deals with the love extended by the poet to his youthful playmate Hartley Coleridge. An account is given of the wonderful gate of Shalmaneser’s Palace, made some 800 years B.C. This is followed by some particulars about the screw and its mechanical power. The “Teeming Myriads of the Sky” and “The Marvellous Power Within Us” are two short articles, and then follows an account of a visit to Ireland. All the articles are profusely illustrated, and these illustrations tend to make this magazine one of the most suitable publications for growing lads and young men, while it will also be appreciated by older folk.. The London Magazine for April is to hand from Messrs Gordon and Gotch. The picture pages contain a number of interesting photographic reproductions of scenes in Japan, and there are also reproduced

photos in colours of the characters in and scenes from the revue “Fun of the Fayre.” there is an illustratecV article entitled Royalty at the Altar,” in which are reproduced scenes connected with the marriages of Queen Victoria, King Edward, King George, and some members of the Royal r amiiy. Robin Bailey contributes an account of ‘ A Day with the Pylehley Hounds and Signor Marconi has an article on WTreles® Wonders of To-morrow.” Sir Ba.sii 1 homson has something to tell about prisons and prisoners. A number of short stories by authors of repute, all illustrated, make up an excellent number. The Red Magazine for March is to hand from Messrs Gordon and Gotch. A feature of the number is the opening chapters of Lthel M. Dell’s latest serial “Charles Rex,” which promises to be quite up to the standard of her previous works. Th e dozen snort stories which make up the remainder of the number are by writers well known to magazine readers. The Yellow Magazine for February (Messrs Gordon and Gotch) is called the mate of the Red Magazine. It contains the second instalment of a serial by Anthony Carlyle entitled “The Tavern and the Arrow.” The rest of the number is taken up with short complete stories (illustrated) by Douglas Newton, A. E. Ashford, J. H. Vahev, Elaine Hamilton, John Chancellor, Valentine, Francis Brown, Walter Irwin, E. Norman Terry, W. H. Thomson, and T. G. Wignall. The Grand Magazine for April (from Messrs Gordon and Gotch), in addition to a number of short complete stories, devotes some pages to photogravure reproductions of “Stars of the Stage and Scieen. there is an instalment of a serial by Beatrice Grimshaw. The Jester pages with his illustrations will evoke some laughter. Among the writers of the short stories-—which, by the way, are illustrated —mention may be made of Edgar Wallace, Gilbert Frankau, Marjorie Bowen, Roy Cumming, Douglas Newton, A. C. Greenwode, A. M. Burrage, Arthur Hornblow, etc. Three numbers of the Premier Magazine for February and March 7 and 2.1 are to hand from Messrs Gordon and Gotch. A feature is made of the “Return of Clubfoot,” by Valentine Williams. The man with the clubfoot when it first appeared in 1917 was generally considered to be the finest spy story of the war, and in reviving the character the author has lost none of his sureness of touch. The short complete stories, all illustrated are by such writers as Coral if- Stanton, Heath Hosken, Albert P. Terhune, Fred M. White, C. O. Andrews, Rafael Sabatini, Barry Douglas, Edward Cecil, Victor MaeOlure, and Thomas Burke, etc.