A NEW LEASE OF "LIFE."

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 551, 19 March 1913, Page 6

A NEW LEASE OF "LIFE."

The publisher of that most enterprising Australasian magazine. Life, has made the one change that was necessary to make it acceptable in every home. He has enlarged the type, and the March number comes to us very readable in both senses of the word. Life is essentially a useful magazine, and its editor manages to keep its usefulness and its entertainment well balanced. In the March issue, for example, appears the first of a new series <-f stories for business people, a rattling jjood story, and a splendid lesson in business practice. It is submitted as the forerunner of a set of business stories'that will rival in interest the famous "Selt-Made Merchant" series. Side by side with it begins another group of scientific detective stories, also exciting and instructive. Then, Mr Carlyle Smith contributes another of his racy articles containing reminiscences of Mark Twain, with whom he toured the world. A. W. Casserley describes a visit to a snake arm in New South Wales; Dr Fitchett, the editor, deals in his customary picturesque manner with the history of the world, and W. A. Somerset contributes a sprightly review of the adventures of the world's champion elephant hunter. And these are but the spe cial features of a magazine that covers in its regular departments the varying interests that go to make up life in the present day. In a word, Life thoroughly merits its name, aud maintains in this issue itß high reputation.