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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4539, 14 March 1923, Page 4

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Weldon’s Ladies’ Journal. —The March number of this journal has an exquisite French fashion supplement in photogravure. The gratis patterns include a smart blouse, dress, and new sac coat for spring, with full directions for cutting out and making up these designs. The number also includes a gratis transfer foi beaded dress ornaments, clasps, and buckles. How to knit dainty combinations in Shetland wool is also givenSpecial lesson on millinery by a professional milliner, styles for the mature figure, furnishing and house decoration, what young girls should wear, children’s page with competition, fascinating lingerie, smart hairdressing, wedding etiquette, etc., are also included in the number. Weldon’s Bazaar of Children's Fashions.—The March number- gives gratis patterns to make girl’s gymnasium costume, sailor jumper, reefer coat, combinations, puss-in-boots, and the latest cuddly toy. This splendid number contains directions for making a baby’s coat and bonnet in crochet, free dressmaking lesson, how to make a child's garment out of a man’s pyjamas, doll’s clothes, the • new trimming for children’s clothes,, and charming ideas for embroideries. The Corner Magazine is an excellent ninepenny number. The stories are good, as the following will show: “The Island of the Palm Tree,” by Claire Pollexfen; “The Pirate,” by Marr Murray; “A Princess in Possession,” by Ann Weaver ; “ Courage,” by Slaven McNutt; “ The Evil Eye,” by H. Landon; and very many other short stories and sketches. Also a new book length novel entitled “ The Whisper in the Wall,” by Edith' Delano. The 'number is fully illustrated. We recommend out readers to buy this January, number of “The Corner” ' and talk of it to their friends. Cassell’s Magazine, which also comes from the same office as the former, namely, Cassell and Co. ..Ltd, has long been known for its excellence of production a,nd choice of fiction. In the review number is a fine,story of adventure and love enrapt in all the glamour of the mysterious East, entitled “ Written in Red,” by H. Bedford Jones. Other contributors-in this numbfer are Phitlip Gibbs, Frank Hubert, the Baroness von • Hutten, Talbut Mundy, Dr. A. Macklin, M.C., and others. Hutchinson’s Adventure Story Magazine, as- its name implies, include some splqndid gripping novels. It opens with “ The Painted Tower,” by Vance Thompson. This novel of the Paris detective world is to appear in four separate parts. A splendid long complete sea story is from the pen of H. Bedford Jones. He maintans his usual high level for character drawing and local colour, and at the same time keeps his plot so full of action that it is one thrill from start to finish. Other delightful short stories are “Our Lady of the Leopards,” “ Saved by\a Cobra,” “Si Urag of the ■Tail,” “Black Bill’s Motto,” “Forced Luck,” and a, number of others. The yiolet and the Priemier, both from the Amalgamated Press, are two magazines that should be included in the fortnightly budget from the bookseller. Both of these contain interesting serials and stories from prominent writers of fiction.