A MAGNIFICENT ANNUAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 906, 18 October 1910, Page 3

A MAGNIFICENT ANNUAL.

“NEW ZEALAND ILLUSTRATED.

The most welcome, as well as the most beautiful, publication issued in the Southern Hemisphere is the Christmas Number of the Weekly Press, published under the title of New Zealand illustrated. Year by year it sets the mark of excellence in printing and design for the Dominion. This year’s issue, which is just to baud, places the art of printing of New Zealand one step higher, and lorms the finest advertisement that can be given for our beautiful scenery and our attractive outdoor life.

The beauty spots of the Dominion are taken irrespective of locality, and thus we have the brightest scenes of the North alongside the equally beautiful but less brilliantly-lighted beauties of the South.

Maori subjects, which have formerly been given such large space, have been this year relegated to two pages, but the pictures selected for these two are of a very fine character, and show us our noble native race in most pleasing form. Lovers of the sea will rejoice iu the numerous very fine sea-scapes and yachting pictures. Among the 100 pictures which go to make up the number, there are noue which could be done without, and collectively they form one of the finest New Zealand albums it has ever been our lot to see.

The large supplement 24111 by 1 Sin, is a reproduction of a fine painting by W. Henry Gore, entitled “Sympathy,” and shows a little girl sympathising with her pel dog, who, as evidenced by his bound-up paw, has met with an accident. The literature forms not its least attractive feature. Opening with a thrilling tale of the ancient -Maori, by A. A. Grace, entitled “ i’itopito's Flute,” in which Maori customs are depicted with the sure and masterly touch of this well-known author, the number presents, in addition. “The (Quicksands ” a highly original fairy story for the children, by A. U. Bright, “At Lotuanuu,” a great story of Samoa, cleverly told by R. T. Chat field, and “Hold Boat No, 13,” by Herbert J. Stewart, a New Zealander's story of adveutuie in Alaska. The cover of the New Zealand Illustrated is always one of its unique features, and this year the artist has given us a fine portrayal of the Tui on a bough of the New Zealand Bnlli Bulli. From end to end the number is a joy of lightness, brightness, and colour, and will enhance the high reputation established by former numbers.