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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4652, 23 January 1924, Page 3

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

♦ LATEST ISSUES'.

With the holiday season still on magazines are ever welcome, and the numbers just appearing are right JP to their previous standard of excellence.

“Sovereign” readers will find a thrilling romance of the South Seas in No. 48, and also' “Sapper’s great iie<v adventures of Bulldpg Drum-

mond.” i “The Detective” No. 26 is brimful of mystery, romance, and realism: It contains stories by Eustace Ainsworth. F. Vosper, Charles G. Gordon, cx-Chief Det.-Inspector E. Haigh, Edgar Wallace and many others. “The Violet” is a magazine really true to. life, and No. 30, just to hand, will be read with much interest. An intriguing problem story, “Charm,” ; by Elin Sond,' “His- own secret,” by B. Arley, “From out of the mist,” by Agatha Murray, are amongst the many fine, stories contained in this number.

“The Yellow” strikes the right note, and the number (55) just on .sale its well worth purchasing for its good, all-round stories. The Christmas-Ne,w Year number of “Weldon’s Ladies’ Journal” has included’ in it a beautiful coloured supplement of latefet fashions and fancy dress costumes, and also the following attractions: Free patterns enclosed to make a lovely evening gown, an afternoon dress, and a new frap coat; a gratis transfer design for embroidery or beads; the newest Paris styles in photogravure ; a new serial story, entitled “Tony in between,” by Winifred Carter; jumpers in the newest mode ; exquisite evening and dance frocks; smart coats and wraps; the matron’s outfit; dainty lingerie, etc.

The Christmas-New Year number of Weldon’s Bazaar of Children’s Fashions is a really wonderful issue, containing free patterns of a girl’s <lay dress, 6 to 8 years, a girl’s coat and boy’s'suit, 2 to 4 years, with the fullest directions for cutting out and making up. A special feature of the number is a coloured supplement of a model doll and her clothes.