PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 3870, 15 May 1928, Page 75

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The annual report of the director, for the year 1927, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is entitled “ Division of Intercourse and Education.” Its main sections treat on the administration of the 'division in the United States, the administration of the division in Europe, and international visits and co-operaton in library work. The financial report is appended.

The April number of the New Zealand Scotsman and Caledonian, with which is incorporated the Scottish New Zealander and the New Zealand Scot, the whole being the official organ of the New Zealand Federation of Caledonian and Scots Societies, contains fine articles on the late Earl Haig—“ Haig Mons Hame,” “A Scot’s Stravaigins,” “ Scots Gaitherin’ in the Rockies,” “ The Gi’ein Hand,” “ Scots News and Views,” and so on. The illustrations are appropriate.

In its eighth report, just issued, the Imperial Economic Committee, a body* appointed by all the Governments of the Empire, explains its aims and functions. Part I describes the functions of the committee and its relationship with the Empire Marketing Board; the present constitution of the committee; the Imperial Conference, 1926; powers of the committee; the scope of the work of the committee, and the relationship of the committee with the Empire Marketing Board. Part II tells of its work and of orderly marketing and control boards.

“ The Call of the Open Spaces ” is the second of a series describing the wonders of the far north of Australia, in the May number of Life; “ Will the Giant Awake?” is written on the “ Sovereign Worke ”of Russia; “ Tigers of the Deep ” is the third of a series articles on sharks; “Flirting with 250 Elephants ” relates the exciting adventures of an elephant hunter, and “ The Land of Mystery ” tells of strange things found in unhappy Russia.“Fifteen Thousand ‘Dollar’ Millionaires,” “Edison’s Way,” “The Russian Revolution,” “ The Romance of the Clearing House,” “ The Madhouse of Nature,” “ King of the Log Men,” and “ What the Other Man Thinks ” are other very readable articles in the issue.

A new, startling story by A. Canon Doyle—“ When the World Screamed ” — is to be read in the April number of the Strand magazine, and deals with Professor George Edward Challenger, who is becoming as well known a figure as Sherlock Holmes. “ Miss Amagee ‘ Sells a Pup ’ ” is a very humorous story by Edgar and Margaret Jepson, while the second part of “ The Female of the Species ” shows “ Sapper ” to be as good a tale-teller as ever. “ She Saw with her Ears,” by Owen Oliver; “Exit Partridge Johnson,” by Bertram Atkey; “ Emily Booker,” by Roland Pertwee. and “How to Write a Short Story” this is particularly amusing—by Albert Kinross, are other examples of fiction in this issue. The articles include “On the Spitfire at Jutland,” “An Interview with Datas, the Memory Man,” and “Cases from my Crime Book: XIII—The Tattooed Men.”

The Chilian Review is a social, economic, and commercial survey of the Republic of Chili. Well illustrated, it has a wide interest and treats on a variety of subjects. “An Interview with the Chilian Minister of the Interior,” “ Chilians and International Literature,” “ The Sixth Pan-American Conference,” “ Chili and the Holy See,” The British Industries Fair,” “ The Electrification of the Transandine Railway,” “lodine as Preventive of Live Sto'ck Losses,” “The Nitrate Situation,” “British Grassland,” “ Anglo-Chilian Industrial Possibilities,” and “Antique Furniture and Works of Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” are some of its articles. “ Vicente Blasco Ibanez ” gives some interesting information about the late writer.

The May number of the New Triad contains some splendid, short articles. Hilary Lofting reviews the reviews; A. M. Pooley writes on the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, P.C.0.M.; Louis Esson describes forgotten favourites of the stage; Pamela Travers contributes a breezy letter from London; J. K. Hipsley writes on George Russell QE of Ireland) ; Hilary Lofting talks of Katherine Mansfield; A. R. Chisholm of French books and French writers; Charles Dearden shows what it feels like to be an actor “ touring the smalls ’ ”; Kester Baruch describes mass art and individualism; Arundel Dene depicts the real Swinburne; W. B. Dailey pens lines on “Herbs”; and R. S. Ross tells us all about ants. Less poetry than usual, but what there is of a good quality; fewer stories, but these highly entertaining; new features such as “ Here, There, and Everywhere,” and “ Schoolboy Howlers ” and a “ Funny ” page make the issue well worth while. The children’s section is bright and clever. * * * Everylady’s Journal for May is full of good reading matter for women. Some of its chattiest articles are “ The Girl Behind the Scenes,” an interview with Betty Ross Clark, of the “ Ghost Train,” “ Girls Flirt on, I Say,” “ The Vagaries of Fashion,” “ Royalties of Yesterday and To-day,” “ Wise Ways in Mothercraft,” “ Seven Deadly Attrac-

tions,” “ Love in Venice,” “ When You Entertain,” “ You and Your Children,” Making the Best of Oneself,” and so on. The regular monthly features are, as usual, interesting. * * » Some outstandingly fine views of the Gieat Barrier Reef are a feature of the May number of the Home (the Australian journal of quality), edited by Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert. Creatures of the sea and the shore gannets and gulls of the air, and scenic gems of the place are shown with marked effect. Other photographs in the issue show beauties of the the screen and the social world, fashion’s fancies, and examples of old colonial architecture. This last, which occupies a ,? ar .g c section of the magazine, is artistic to a degree. The reading matter is of «n interesting nature. Randolph Bedford writes on “ The Great Barrier Beef, Jean Curlewison on “Sixty ThouX\ d T o uris ts,” D. Lindsay Thompson on the hence of Divorcement,” John L n el -R ° n „ ‘,7 he Message of our ForeBuilders, Myra Morris on “ The Apple Tree, H. Grinstead on “ The Tin Golfer,” Angela Thtrkill on “Our Charming Decadents, Ethel Anderson on “ Certain Things Considered,” and Michael Terrv on ‘On Being Bored.” J