KEEPING ABREAST OF THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1374, 16 March 1915, Page 4

KEEPING ABREAST OF THE WAR.

"Life,’’ the popular Australasian magazine, continues to pro vide a more comprehensive view ol the progress of the war than any magazine we know. The current (March) issue, for example, contains, in three sections, a masterly summary of the fighting of the month, by Dr Fitchett, in which that brilliant writer describes the warfare in the trenches, the battles on the seas, and, finally, indicates in which direction the stream is running.

To supplement this main statement ol the position of the rival forces which, with its illustrations, occupies about one-fourth ol the total issue of Life, there are scores of articles, pictures, stories, and ‘■explanations,” so that one feels after reading Life that he is keeping well abreast o! the progress of the tremendous struggle.

Conspicuous among Life’s special articles are the following : “Snapshots of the Australian and New Zealand Forces iu Egypt,” by a special correspondent; “How the News is gathered from the Battlefields” a review of the book of the month ; “How the Germans Laid Their Flans for the Naval Raids and “The Infantryman’s Fighting Tools,” being a more or less technical description of how trench warfare is conducted.

We are glad to notice in Life a number of excellent poems on the war, lucluding several noteworthy cunuibutions by Australian writer?. The science, literary, fictional, and sporting departments arc ;.iby n>;“ mtained, and a new serf of lessons for beginners in carpet.oy is worth noticing by those —and their number is rapidly who have discovered the uis r delight of pottering round a work bcuch and .“making things,” be it a dog-keuuel or a dining-room suite. Life is old everywhere for sixpence. It it is unobtainable locaiiy, readers cannot do better than send i/£> i stamps or postal notes to T. Shaw Fitchett, 376 Swanstou Street, Melbourne, for a three months' tiki subscription. The current Life will come by return, post free, and two other war isaues as soon as published. We are confident that any reader who thus tries Life lor three mouths will find that it becomes a monthly necessity,