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Otago Witness, Issue 3726, 11 August 1925, Page 66

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. The Strand Magazine for July is brimful of good reading matter. A. Conan Dovle, the world-famous writeT, begins an exciting new serial, “ The Land of Mist; or the Quest of Edward Malone ”; and L. Phillips Oppenheim contributes a further chapter to “ Mr Billingham, the Marquis, and Madelon,” entitled “ The Cafe of Terror.” Margaret Strickland writes a personal article on “ Animals and the Lure of Music,” and Jerome K. Jerome continues his “ Confessions of a Humourist ” with laughable success. Of short stories there are some delightful ones, including “ Out, Pounce, Piggy,” by Horace Annesley Vachell; “ Without the Option,” by P. G. Wodehouse; “ The Greatest Lovecharm in the World,” by Edgar Jepson; “A Native Superstition, by “Sapper”; and “ The Beautiful Miss Hooper,” by Denis Mackail. The whole magazine is lavishly illustrated, and contains as well a page of acrostics and perplexities.

Another crossword puzzle commences in the latest issue of Humour. This gives additional interest to the little weekly, which is always full of witticisms in picture and story from the leading humorous journals of the world.