A True Australasian Magazine

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1404, 27 January 1914, Page 5

A True Australasian Magazine

The February issue of “Lit ” is the breeziest and ,most widely r/presen- - tative number of this popul?- 1 Anstra* v lasian magazine we have seen. The. frontispiece depicts a series of advent tures with a kangaroo on a wayback station in New South Wales a railway president in a stirring sketch shows how the breakdown gang of a great . railway system works; Mr A. H. K. , ' Maftingey, the premier Nature photo- % grapher of Australia, outlines in a succession of wonderful pen and M camera-pictures the life story of the ■ penguin; Mr Carlyle Smythe writes a. vigoroui article on Australia as a colonising power, and an anonymous writer, * criticises freely the administration of the Northern Territory. ; Of courie, Dr. Fitchett handles the 'K political history of Australia and New Lj Zealand for the past month in his ' usual nasterly fashion. Even ;th%v-=B? instalment of Jack London’s serial ’ | story, “The Valley of the Moon,” / deals with the adventures of a couple-' • > who are seeking to find a home on the; land, and the lessonsjthey learn in the -;y search apply with equal force to this country and its inhabitants, as to the , .-J : America and the Americans. Of what might be called the outside features ‘yj of “Life,” the most notable of this month are a fine review of the story of Scott’s journey to the South Pole,published by Smith, Elder & Co., and an unusual offer in connection With . Captain Amundsen’s proposed drift to the North Pole. Captain Amundsen, -.- A in order to augment the. funds neces- - sary to equip this expedition, haspersuaded the postal authorities of” the world to consent to the; issue of ’ - special post cards, which' will bevr| taken to the North Pole, there stamped % with a special post-mark, and to any person in any part of the. world who cares to pay 2s 6d for the ; j. privilege. The publisher of “Life”. and ‘Everylady’s Journal” has been' jy asked to take 'charge of these postcards which are allotted t> and they are offered to readers n\e ;| 2s 6d each. TJie departmental s e -r of “Life” is as usual quite up to t 1 * standard, and completes a magazine that every busy man should read. ' 1