MAGAZINES RECEIVED.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4545, 31 March 1923, Page 4

MAGAZINES RECEIVED.

To lovers of the: •‘movies” the Picturegoer Magazine-, a London production, will be founefl most interesting. It, deals exclusively with matters relating to pictures aTid the careers of famous artists, giving a synopsis of the latest productions and “movie” gossip for the- month. The January number has a full-pa-ge photo of Corinne Griffith, Sydney folker, Matt Moore, Mirsttn Batista (it child actress), amU snajis from the following picture plays: “Things we want to know”’; “Pola from Polatud”; ‘‘My four months in Australia” “Paddy, thCMJiext-best-thing” ; Passion”'; “The ®fee£k” ; and many others, ”Jf.ly Magazine” is an interesting ?|WJ.gazine for young folk. Itti addition Jo many stories for boys and girls It i?, profusely illustrated and contains Vhe usual pages of puzzles. “The Yellow” is always- eagerly sought after, and this number is right up to standard. The first instalment of a new serial story, entitled “Whosoever loveth enough,” by Anthony .Carlyle, commences with this issue. Stories in this number are contributed by Halph Durand, Gladys Waterer, Francis Brown, Leslie Beresford, W. D. Pelley, Gunby Hadath, and others, with illustrations throughout. Most thrilling are .the stories in “The Detective Magazine.” The opening chapters of a serial story packed with incidents of London’s underworld entitled “The Man who lost an hour,” is from the pen of Francis Marlowe. “The Bank of England Frauds,” a-s told by W. ! A. Pinkerton, the famous American detective; “The ways of Hotel Thieves,” by John Goodwin; “Rogues of the Racecbures,’' by A. JRussell; “The Mystery of the Sicilian Candle,” an extraordinarily true murder problem solved by a great criminologist, are a few of the many dramatic stories of mystery and crime that compose this new magazine.

“The London” for March is well up to its high standard. The special articles this month are “The Hidden Menace,” by Valentine Williams, “Spiritualist Exploited,” by Nevil Maskelyne, and ‘’Peaceful Penetration,” by David Loughman. The pages of fiction include “The Guest,” by Hugh Walpole, “That Romantic Age,” by Ronald Pertwee; “ The Blind Watcher,” by H. Mortimer Batten, “The Sleepless Man,” by William Caine, “The Valley of Orchids,” by Mrs Campion de Crespigny, “Gerald Cranston’s Lady,” by Gilbert Frankau. The miscellaneous articles are “London River (in pictures)”; “The Last Waltz,” “The new Musical Comedy at the Gaiety Theatre, London,” and “The Island King,”