THE PERIODICALS

Southland Times, Issue 25312, 15 June 1935, Page 13

THE PERIODICALS

The fact that The Bulletin of Sydney is .being sued for libel as a result of its criticism of a novel is an indication of the weekly’s habit of hitting hard when it thinks hard hitting necessary hasn’t waned. To-day one may say with confidence that The Bulletin is more vigorous than it has been in the last five or ten years, and it is representative of Australia as ever it was, which is saying a great deal. The editorial page is always provoking and I notice it has drawn attention to the weakness in Federal systems revealed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s judgment crippling the N.I.R.A. All the usual features are there and, I am pleased to see “Belleriot’s” verse still appears in the Answers to Correspondents column. My copy comes from the publishers, Sydney. Good Housekeeping for April is a well filled issue. Fiction is supplied by Sheila Kaye-Smith, E. M. Delafield, Temple Bailey, Florence Kilpatrick, Gladys Langdale, and Joanna Caiman. Dr. Maude Royden writes “For those who are Crippled,” and the Countess of Oxford and Asquith on “The Architecture of the Home.” Victoria SackvilleWest deals with “If we had ten lives,” and Sir John Irvine’s contribution is “Pity the poor Dramatist.”' Americans are discussed by Winifred Holtby, and there is a glance at the word written by Helena Normanton. In addition the established features dealing with the home and its affairs are up to high standard, including Nina Hyde’s useful “Dressing to Type.” . In the Film Fashionland for May there is a free pattern for a day frock by. Betty Furness and eleven pages of the latest film fashions. “Stretch and Grow Slim,” is by Ida Lupino, and “Finger-tip Beauty” by Toby Wing. The special articles include: “Hollywood Family,” by E. G. Cousins, “How to Dance the Carioca, the new dance,”" “Are you the Miriam Hopkins Type?” “Your Horoscope,” by W. Frank'"Tbe Stars and their Fan Mail,” and “Between the Scenes.” There is also a short story by W. Elliott, and the conclusion of "Bronze Angel,” by Judith Lynn Mabey. “Good Housekeeping” and “Film Fashionland” come through Messrs Gordon and Gotch, Ltd., Christchurch.