The Chapman-Alexander Missions.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 19 June 1912, Page 4

The Chapman-Alexander Missions.

An Official Souvenrr which has been published-by T. Shaw Fitchett in connection with the visit to Australasia of Dr. Chapman and Mr. C. M. Alexander and Party claims to bo the most ambitious piece of religious journalism ever published, and the claim is justified. Beginning with a condensed account of the Mission conducted in Australia in 1909, the story is told of the Party's tour the East, across Cau~ ad a and America to England, back to the States and once again to Wales through Ireiand, and out to Australia ia March of the present year. The reading matter is widely varied—aud includes articles, sketches, interviews, and verbatim reports of: many of Dr Chapman's sermons. The illustrations are remarkably fine, comprising twenty-two large plates on art -paper, and perhaps a hundred other portraits and vieM'S, The plan of dividing the one hundred-odd pages into a dozen or more sections placed iv order of date is admirable, and every section makes a delightful bit of reading. The Volume, which measures fifteen inches by ten, is contributed to by Dr. W. H. Fitchett, the Rev. Alex. Stewart, M. A., W. W, Rock, the Rev. S. Scholes, Gr. T. B. Davis, Robert Haikness and' VV. A. Sjinerset Shura, who is also responsible for the editing and the artistic arrangement of the volume. The price is Is 6d, posted from the office of T. Shaw Fitchett, 37G iSwanston Street, Melbourne.