The Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1877.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 223, 9 January 1877, Page 2

The Evening Mail.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1877.

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Wtt must confess to feeling entirely in unison with the Dunedin Times- in its critique on the last number of the " 2iew Zealand Magazine. To bare ne> less than two long articles on Evolution and its concomitant doctrines is too much for the outside reatter to pot up with ; and however interesting, it may fee- to those lights of science' who take as much interest in some abstruse science as. a hungry dog does in a meaty bono, we may safely assert that other subjects of general interest would be found much more acceptable to those who take m the ** Magazine,"' as well as more remunerative to it* proprietors. We may even go further, and state that from its inception the ** Magazine'" has been of such an uncommonly heavy character that none except those who, gifted with the emwthex sw%b<mef» t write for it, their admirers, and that class who will read a railway time table, an advertisement sheet, the prospectus of » new mining Company, anything, in fact, covered with printer's ink, would «v«r find consolation or amusement within its pages* Instruction there probsSdy is in abandonee, but it is of such a dry order, and on such generally uninteresting subjects, that the recipient 'finds himself in a greater fog at the end of an article than he wast at the beginning. Of coarse the editors of it may point with unction to the " Edinburgh," the "Quarterly,'* and other dry-as-dustian imblicaftioiia; but 'they should: recollect that these axe meant almost exclusively for tike edification of scientific people, of whom m theOM WorM there are large' : moatmß, white in tfc» Cwleny there are " T -inlfiriTrTt lor 6W ||HHHNl|£ip# thai' as there were

so many of tlwm, a sntflfStfmber here/ Dr. CdtrcHTßEx's hobby lealKng to the instruction of one pupil the fallacy of this ; and we are perfectly certain the voice of the people of Neir Zesfc land is quite a sufficient argument against running the " Magazine" in such a frightfully scientific groove as it has hitherto been travelling. " Belgravia," " T.mple Bar," " London Society," and others of the same class appear to ns far more worthy of imitation than the " Edinbtirgh " or " Quarterly ;" and were such a course followed, the " Magazine " would be a boon to the public, instead of what it is now—a bore.