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New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, 1 February 1905, Page 410

THE PUBLISHER'S DESK. ADVENTURES OF AN INDIAN DACOIT CHIEF. We have much pleasure in announcing that we have made arrangements for a •series of short stories dealing with the career of Tantia Bheel, a noted Indian Dacoit Chief who defied all efforts for his arrest. Many of our readers will remember having made the acquaintance of this slippery outlaw in a story entitled "Dobson and Tantia Bheel," which appeared in our October issue. The author, Mr. T. S. Gurr, resided for some years in India, and the stories are the result of material collected on the spot. RATS I HAVE KNOWN. A. H. Messenger's contribution to our next issue will be a humorous one with the above suggestive title. We venture to predict that even those who have a horror of all rodents will read with interest the result of the author's close study of the character of his many acquaintances in this particular phase of low life. OPENING THEIR EYES. In the literary columns of a recent issue of the London "Daily News" surprise is expressed that the New Zealand Illustrated Magazine had entered on its eleventh volume at the antipodes, and that such a magazine could be written, illustrated, printed and published in this little far away colony. In this, as in many other respects, we are gradually opening the eyes of the " Old Folks at Home." o Articles on the following subjects will appear shortly : — About Keats. — Joyce Jocelyn The Moriori and the Albatross. — By W. B. Te Kuiti. Honolulu.— By C. L. Harris. Rats I Have Known. — By A. H. Messenger. The Wry-Billed Plover.— By H. L. Machell. On Summer Seas. — By F. W. Coombes. Storiettes by the following Authors : — Mates Together.— By Arch. M. McNicol. Tom Bowling. — By J. Cowan. Fielding and Tantia Bheel. — By T. S. Gurr. ■Betty's Lovers. — By Hilda Keane. The Justice of the Kainga. — By Alice A. Kenny.