OURSELVES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XV, 13 October 1894, Page 343

OURSELVES.

THE ‘REVIEW OF REVIEWS’ PATS US ON THE BACK. IN a long article—one of the series on Australian Journalism—the Review of Reviews for September 20th, 1894, speaks of several New Zealand journals, including the Graphic. It commences as thus : — * The colonies are rich in illustrated journals of a certain type. The Australasian, the Leader, the Sydney Mail, the Town and Country Journal, the Queenslander — not to mention other weekly papers — all produce illustrations, which are often of high artistic merit. But with these journals the illustrations are, so to speak, accidental ; they are added as a tiny pinch of art to sweeten the great mass of news overflowing so many broad pages. New Zealand alone boasts a weekly illustrated journal of the type of the Graphic and the Illustrated London News. The New Zealand Graphic has artistic merits which deserve a wider recognition than they have as yet received ; and its founder and proprietor— Mr Henry Brett —is an admirable type of the men who have shaped Australasian journalism. As a chapter in the journalistic history of the colonies, the story of Mr Brett and his literary enterprises deserves to be told. The following sketch is by a writer specially well-informed on the subject.’ The article then goes on to tell the story of the founding of the JucWorad Star and Graphic.