LEADING MAGAZINES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2532, 20 January 1923, Page 1

LEADING MAGAZINES.

We have received from the publishers (Messrs Gordon and Gotch Ltd.) per Mrs l Parkes, local hookseller, the following current magazines :

Weldon’s Bazaar of Children’s Pash ions (’Xmas and New Year) is a wonderful number. The gratis patterns include girl’s frock, evening dress (<i to 8 years), pelal dance frock, smart coat (4 to (i years) magyar tunic (.1 to 2 years). This .splendid number contains a beautiful coloured supplement of an original fancy dress and ideas for Christmas gifts and how to make them at the last moment. A clever toy vou can make for the children which will cause.no end of fun. Also new games and hints for arranging a successful children’s party, the latest toy animals. Knitted clothes for doll and a pretty frock to make for a tiny tot. Children’s page. Riddles, new competitions tor children. Free lessons in making child’s combinations and petticoats. Cookery recipes—the childrens’ ’Xmas pudding. Cake and sweets also.

The Christmas number of Wel- ; don’s Ladies’ Journal shows all the newest Paris fashions. The gratis patterns include a lady’s dress, evening gown, short coat and evening cloak —with full directions for cutting out and making up these designs. Special features of the number include a photogravure portrait of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Exquisite coloured supplement of fashions, fancy dress, costumes and dance frocks, evening wraps, and the fashionable short coats also smart street suit and a gratis transfer design for the new Bulgarian embroidery. How to make a Shetland knitted undervest for evening wear, lovely lingerei, smart millinery, becoming styles for the growing girl and slender women styles. Beauty articles —if only 1 were Slim. The Christmas dinner table —recipes. A page for the children. Prize competitions, etc. THE PREMIER MAGAZINE for October 31 is now to hand and contains a large number of' delightful stories by gifted authors well known to the magazine-reading public. Among these we notice Albert Payson Terhune, Henry J. Fi'dler and IT. D. Couzens. Guy Thorne continues his thrilling new novel “Cinema City" ynd a new series of Monte Curb) stories by Nellie Tom-Gallon and Colder Wilson entitled “Monsieur Zero,” is commenced.

Albert Payson Terhune’s new serial “Black Gild” commences in the PREMIER' MAGAZINE for November 28. The author —lover of nature in all her moods —has done no liner work than in this new story, and since Terhune is the author, there is, of course, a dog. There are many attractive and exciting complete stories and each one is cleverly illustrated. “The Old Fool” is the title of a charming little story by Elaine Hamilton in THE RED MAGAZINE for October 27. In addition there are ten other complete stories by John Haslette Vahey, Walter Grogen, W. Harold Thomson, etc. etc.

The Red also contains the opening chapters of a new serial story “That Bellow MacArthnr,” by Sehvyn Jepson, the brilliant novelist. Many delightful tales of romance and adventure are contained in the RED MAGAZINE for November 24. Perhaps the most outstading of these is “Three Leaves from Baedeker,” by Harold Alen, a thrilling story of the East. Selwyn Jepson, Donovan Bavley, Edmund Snell and A. E. Ashford are among those contributing and each is attractively illustrated.