PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 4042, 1 September 1931, Page 65

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The July number of the New Royal Alagazine (Gordon and Gotch) is a special summer number containing eight complete stories by F. E. Baily, Selwyn Jepson, Bruce Norman, Barbara Hedworth, Hector Alontgomery Smith, E. Al. Winch, H. H. Bashford, and E. Al. Ahnedingen, and five special articles, “The ‘Barkies,’” “Aly Alile-long Letters,” “ Let’s Go Native,” “ Beauty’s Latest Figure,” and “A-hiking We Will Go.” The whole is an attractive and pleasing publication.

In the Wide World magazine (Gordon and Gotch) is “Eighteen Days to the Horn! ” a rousing story of the old “ wind-jammer ” days, when elipper-ships raced home under every stitch of canvas to be first in port with Australia’s wool. Another good yarn is “ The White Tigress,” an account of the meteoric career of one of the most remarkable women Alexico ever produced. “ Slippery Wiley and the ‘ Black Hand ’ ” deals with a curious adventure of a certain gentleman, while “The Alantiger ” is one of those strange stories that make one sit Lack and think. “ The Alan with the Harp ” continues his account of his experiences in the Far North, and John Gibbons gives further amusing glimpses of his progress through the wilds of Portugal.

From Alessrs Gordon and Gotch we have received two magazines of special interest to lovers of fiction, The 20 Story Alagazine and All Star. All the stories in the first are complete and are written by such well-known authors as Selwyn Jepson, Will Scott, Augustus Aluir, Ursula Bloom, Albert Richard Wetjen, Stephen Phillips, and Richard Connell, so offering material for every taste. Adventure, mystery, and thrills are the chief subjects of the tales in All Star. There are the first part of a new serial, “ The Tomb of the Gods,” a complete novel, and seven tales laid in some of the most romantic portions of the globe. Both magazines arc to be recommended for their cleanness and interest.

The first number of volume 1 of Australian Needlework, published monthly by Alessrs Alitchell and Casey Proprietary, Ltd., Alelbourne, is to hand. It comes in order to meet the present revival of interest in needlework and knitting, and is a very helpful and up-to-date magazine, amply illustrated, and offering minute descriptions of all its patterns—women’s jumpers, a singlet for evening wear, a drawnthread work front, a transfer design, a smocked blouse, crocheted d’oyleys, and baby's garments, and instructions for complicated knitting, crochet, and embroidery stitches. In addition, there is a serial story by Airs A. J. Phillips, “A Woman Without a Heart.” Altogether, the magazine is ideal for women.