PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 3830, 9 August 1927, Page 75

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

YY 7 c are in receipt of the final report of the YY 7 orld Economic Conference, dealing with the League of Nations meeting at Geneva in May of this year. Adopted unanimously by the members of the conference, the report with the resolution is an important document. Its. table of contents includes the president’s general survey and summary, the economic situation and? post-war problems, general

resolutions, and dcc>Jons arrived at with regard to commerce, industry, and agriculture. ' '

“The king is dead! Long live the king!” The late monarch began life splendidly. His early reign was characterised by fame, success, and strength, and he dared many tilings. But of recent years he has been failing, until now he has died and been decently buried. His suceesssor, however, is a lusty youth, a worthy heir of his sire’s first triumphs and confident of excelling. Therefore we look to him to re-establish the kingdom and to fill his reign with power. In other words, the Triad, first published by Air Baeycrtz in Dunedin in 1892, made to enjoy a unique position in Australian journalism under the late Air Frank Alorton’s genius, but, in spite of continued efforts, doomed to failure in recent years, especially since the Great YY’ar, has gone, and its successor, the New Triad, come forward to take its place. Two new editors Hugh Al'Crae and Ernest Y\ att—both men of high literary standing, are in charge of it, and it aims at so recalling its old traditions that it shall regain the position it once so proudly occupied, and, by giving the best that comes within its reach, maintain, without being highbrow, a standard that would have done credit to the Triad in its palmiest days. To judge from the first number, the ideal is very near fulfilment. Produced on art paper, and wearing a striking cover design by Alahdi Al’Crae, who, incidentally, has several clever sketches running through the issue, it contains matter to interest all tastes. The criticism of music, the theatre, art, and books, which was one of the outstanding features of the old Triad' is carried on here with great results, truth and sincerity being the main ingredients used. Articles on literary, topical, historical, and extraordinary subjects are contributed, and short stories by masters of their craft make pleasing reading. Hie poetry in the issue is a happv feature. New ventures are there social news, motoring, bridge, tennis, and sporting articles, and photographs of prominent pretty women. YY hen one sees that its list of contributors includes such names as George Cecil, Hugh E. Wright, Pamela Travers, Hector Bolitho, Louis Esson, D. P. Al’Guire, Randolph Bedford, J - Al. Abbott, David Al’Kee YVright, Helen YY ills, and others similarly well known in literary circles, one feels safe to predict a prosperous future for the new publication.

How do you hold things—for example, your pen or your paint brush? This question was put to several leading people, with the result that an article and photographs of the hands of the King, the Queen, the Duchess of York, and prominent writers and artists appear in the pages of the Strand Magazine for Julv., Zoological Humour ” and “ Cases f.-orn Crime Book: Orsini the Croupier ’*• are two other articles, while short stores ™ -V, 1 . 6 IS A UC are b - v P - G - Wodehouse, E. Ihilbps Oppenheim, Edgar Jepson, F-mk Birkinshaw, Horace Annesley Va chill, YYilham Freeman, Anthony Armstrong apd Alary Clare Davron. " YV. G. Grace: A Memory ” is an article oii cricket, by A. Conan Doyle.