NOTICES OF BOOKS.
The Family Herald , January, 1874, The Young Ladies' Journal, February, 1874. The London Journal , January, 1874. Joseph. Braithwaite, corner of Fleet street and High street, Dunedin. We have received’copies of the above three serials, each of which, has merits peculiar to itself. We have glanced over the pages of them and find matter suited to various tastes. “The Family Herald” its usual, in addition to its light reading, contains many papers of great interest. Its statistics and receipts are valuable for instruction in social and domestic life; its varieties are amusing and well worth reading; and “The Eiddler ” contains problems tending to develop the reasoning and inventive faculties. We ought not to omit the scraps of original poetry, generally far above average rhyming, and not too long for enjoyment.
“T fi e Young Ladies’Journal,” although containing much pleasant.reading, is more especially :i useful on account of its technical aid in the drawings and explanations for cutting out dresses and making a vast number of elegant domestic. articles in wool and other kinds of work. There are colored fashion sheets which are termed “Gigantic Supplements,” the uses of which ladies know much better' than we. There are also several well arranged pieces of light music, which we can safely recommend as very agreeable compositions of their class. The * London Journal ’ is not so general in its selection of matter, and seems more exclusively devoted to the publication of novels, which, from -the illustrations, appear to abound with highly exciting situations. The illustrations are well executed. One very useful sheet is added to its pages : it is a chronological summary of the most striking events of the past half-year. The fashion plates are executed with great care and skill; and what may prove of great interest to ladies just now is the supplement, which contains full-sized patterns of the “Toilette de Bal, Princess Marie of Russie,” and “ Corsage et Gilet, Toilette de Soiree.” As these are copyright, their value is the greater
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Evening Star, Issue 3472, 9 April 1874, Page 3
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333NOTICES OF BOOKS. Evening Star, Issue 3472, 9 April 1874, Page 3
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