"LIFE" FOR AUGUST.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 380, 22 July 1911, Page 5

"LIFE" FOR AUGUST.

i The August issue of "Life" is as complete a piece of magazine work as may be found on any bookstall in the world. Following the July issue, which was a Coronation number, it deals appropriately with affairs on this side of the globe, and, as the cover design indicates, special attention is given to the subject of wool. I The average man is not much concprned in the statistics of wool, but I Mr Charles Nuttall has gathered the facts and displayed them in such a fascinating manner, with a liberal sprinkling of drawings, that the casual reader is at once interested and educated. Side by side with him, Mr A. H. Mattingley, C.M.Z.S., perhaps the most expert photographer of wild nature in Australia, is represented in an illustrated article on the dingo, which he aptly terms "Nature's Stray Dog," and Mr J. M. Sinclaire gives a brief description of that characteristic New Zealand industry, kauri-gum digging, backing his facts and figures with capital photographs. On the more romantic side, this issue of "Life" gives a graphically illustrated story of a tiger hunt in which five hundred men and a score of elephants were pitted against a pair of man-eaters. Druing Dr Fitchett's absence in England, Mr Carlyle Smythe, B A., is contributing bright comment on current events and conducting in an admirable manner the history of the month a department that keeps readers abreast of the times in the world of politics. Dr Fitchett himself is represented in one of a new series of "Deeds that Won the Empire," this month's story concerning itself with the chase and capture of "that great robber, Tippoo Sahib." These are but the special articles in the magaizne; in addition to the there are many fine stories and half a dozen departments packed with the latest information in science, art, literature, sport, and religion. Indeed, "Life" is just what it claims to be, and more • —the idea! magazine for the busy man to read and take home for his growing? boys and girls.