PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 79

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

In the March number of the New Zealand Railways Magazine there is an illustrated description of “ The Finest Walk in the World,” Milford Track, New Zealand. Other articles are “ Commercial Relations,” “ Safety on the Railways,” “ History of the Manawatu Line,” Railway Ambulances,” and similar ones.

We are in receipt of “ Australasia Old and New,” being the catalogue of books published by Messrs Francis Edwards, Ltd., London. The catalogue contains a list of old books, maps, original watercolour drawings, oil paintings, and coloured plates relating to Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the islands of the Pacific Ocean.

“ The Eyes of Argus,” an entertaining story telling of a girl who received a present of a box of peacock feathers, is one of the features of Everylady’s Journal for March. Articles in the same issue include “Colonial "Life in the Earlv ’Forties,” “ What Kills a Child’s Courage?” “The Man I Marry,” “In the Land of Luxury,” “ The Value of Daily Physical Exercise,” “ Making ' Movies ’ in the Land of Sheiks,” “ Making the Best of Oneself,” “ How to be Popular,” and others of a similar nature.

The February number of the P.L.A., the official magazine of the Port of London Authority, is an artistic publication. An air view of London taken above the Thames is as beautiful a piece of photography as one could wish, and gives of the great city an impression which is romantic to a degree. The other illustrations are equally fine, and the articles, “ Docks of the Port of London,” “ The Thames Flood of January, 1928,” “ London Bridge,” “ Trade of the Port of London,” “ Works in Hand for the Requirements of Trade,” and others are in keeping.

Much good poetry, a coloured supplement by a Parisian artist, snappy short stories, articles of an original nature, and criticisms of literature, art, and music are typical of the March number of the New Triad, edited by Hugh M’Crae and Ernest Watt. “ Ups and Downs,” by Hugh E. W right; “An Untrue Story,” by Elizabeth Flatt; and “ Lobster Mayonnaise,” by Vivian Crockett, are all worth reading, while “Five Shillings’ Worth of Eternity,” a story by the late David M'Kee Wright, will be read with sentiment as well as interest. “ David is Dead,” an appreciation by Hilary Lofting, also deals with the late poet. The special features—“ Post and Paddock,” “ The Garden,” “ Theatres,” “ About Music,” “ Lawn Tennis,” “ Book Reviews,” and “ A Children’s Page ” —are as usual informative, bright, and topical.

There is always something outstanding with regard to the Home, “ the Australian journal of quality,” edited by Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert, the March number being noteworthy for its pictures of garden paths, yachts, birds, marine creatures, and people. The first, in their charm and old-world atmosphere, make one wishful to join the crusade against such materials for paving as asphalt and red cement; the second show the white sails of yachts on the Yarra; the third are terns with their graceful, decorative wings; the fourth such life as is to be found in the coral reels of the Pacific; and the fifth all the prettiest and most noteworthy’ women in present-day Australia. The articles, stories, and poems in the issue, including theatre news, an appreciation of M. Borotra, social chat, house and garden section, and a page for children are excellent, and make the magazine one very well worth while.