Publications Receivec.

White Ribbon, Volume 12, Issue 141, 13 February 1907, Page 5

Publications Receivec.

Tlu Bookjelluu • is a new ‘ Weekly Magazine and Australasian Literary Review" of such high literary merit and delightful get-up as make it worthy < f long and prosperous life. That such may be its experience we most cordially desire. Report of the Boer Home Industrie* and Aid Society. — This pamphlet is sent by the Countess Evelyn Asivelli, of Geneva, and gives an interesting account of the work started by Miss Hobhouse among the impoverished Boer women

and voting girls. Travelling through tin countrv districts of Smith Africa, Mis> Hobhouse was profoundly impressed bv the destitution of large numbers of the [teople. Combined with the unpromising natural characteristics of the country, tin* devastation wrought by the war has made it almost impossible h r anv but capitalists to engage in profitable agriculture. Returning home, Mi>s Hobhouse mastered the details <>| lacc making and wool .weaving, and with two assistants sailed again for South Africa, and in the farm homes has begun an industry which is proving a boon indeed. Ihe girls are most apt pupils, and many are now teaching others. The great lack is means wherewith to procure spinning wheels and other machinery. New Zealand sent her quota of the men who devastated that far-off country; will New Zealand women not sen.; money to help orphans and other war-stricken girls b become >elf-supportiug v The treasurer of tin* fund is Miss Marg ird Clark (.) »hn Bright s grand-daughter). Mi 11 field. Street. Somerset.