PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19474, 8 May 1925, Page 12

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Messrs Gordon ■ and Got eh have sent the following parcel of periodicals dealing with subjects pertaining to the home. One of them (Woman), a magazine dealing with beauty culture, health, homo decoration, fashions, and fiction, is a beautifully arranged work, with its heavy art paper and its lavish assortment of illustrations, both photographic and drawn. Some of the contributors in the March number include Geoffrey .Moss, Cosmo Hamilton, Lady Duckworth, Sir William Orpcn. Florence Riddell, and Lady Alexander. Tho magazine will bo a treasured possession in the home. Weldon’s Ladies' Journal ami Weldon’s Bazaar of Children's Fashions for May are two popular fashion books specially designed to please the homo dressmaker. Paper patterns and transfers are supplied with these hooks, and the fashions are so well explained that they, wil] dm] ready sale with those who wish to make smart but simple clothes. Modern Priscella has been called the finest women’s periodical on the market, and a glance at the April number makes this statement seem very true. It deals -wholly with subjects relative to the home, and is full of helpful advice and hints. Some of the articles in this well-illustrated issue deal with bridal outfits, distinctive linens, hatmaking, inexpensive embroderics, the mating of pockets, making the kitchen pleasant to work in, painted wooden ware, frocks for growing girls, luncheons and suppers for chibs and panties, deep fat frying, oil stoves and auxiliary' cooking appliances, recipes, making a reed lamp, and fashions. The Woman’s Home Companion for April is attractive from cover to cover. It contains sections dealing with such subjects as housebuilding, gardening, interior decoration, handicraft, etiquette, money-making, cooking, embroider}’, while tho many pages devoted to fashion will delight all feminine readers. There arc special articles nine delightful stories, and illustrations by some of the most prominent of modern artists. A charming paper for women is the Delineator for April, in which the fashion section is perhaps more attractive than in any other journal. It is divided into fonr main groups—fiction, which includes five splendid stories, fashions and embroideries, home economics, and special features. In these two last groups some excellent articles are to be found, such as those on taking boarders, reducing, a model bungalow-, moulding your child’s character, painted furniture, eat more fish, dainty dressing tables, and the prodigal son. All are fully illustrated. , Physical Culture for March fper Messrs Gorden and Gotch) -will bo popular with many classes of readers, so wide and varied is its interests. A most informative article on " How to determine the Sex of Your Child” is given, and a further essay by Judge Ben Lindsay in “Tho Moral Code of

Modern Youth.” In addition, there are articles on such subjects as how to cure dyspepsia, putting pen into the tired business man, exercising for a belter complexion, how to reduce, whole grain would save millions of lives, and new facts about cereal foods. The whole publication is widely illustrated. ... There are some delightful stories m. the latest issue of Nash's Pall Mall Magazine (jet M<is,s Gordon and Gotch). AV. J. Locke begins bis new serial ,_ “The Great Pandogo,” and there are stones by Robert (lichens, Marjorie Bowen. St. John Ervinc, Ssr Philip Gibbs, Dale Collins, A. S. M. Hutchison, Somerset Ala ugh an, Bruno Lessing, and many others. The beauty of illustration in the production is always an outstanding feature in Nash’s Magazine, and in this number tho pictures arc more elaborate than ever The London Magazine for May (per Messrs Gordon and Gotch) contains four special articles, eight stories, and two supplements Heather Thatelier and Leslie Henson give some original ideas on "Laughs: How We Get them.” the Right Hon. the Earl of Birkenhead, writer of ‘ Marconi Scandal,” Valentine Williams describes “ Rich and Poor on the Riviera.,” and David Masters proves that vermin is the cause of cancer and disease. The short stories are by Robert. W. Chambers, Albert Payson Terhune, Richmal Crompton, William Caine, G. B. Lancaster, Victor MacClure, Charles G. D. Roberts, and Gilbert Franku.'

A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION

Letters of introduction may be between friends or for business purposes; in either case, it is better not to present them personally. Should you be going abroad and receive a letter of introduction from a mutual friend to some important personage whose acquaintance will be a considerable social asset, leave it at the house of tho addressee, together with your visiting card, and await a communication. There will then bo no possibility of awkwardness arising in the necessary pause for the recipient to glanco through the contents of the epistle before you receive a welcome. probabilities are you will receive a cordial invitation by return In the case of a business introduction, a. covering letter enclosing this and requesting an interview is tho usual procedure. . In writing a letter of introduction it naturally depends upon tho extent of your knowledge of tho person who is to present it what remarks you make regarding him or her for the information of tho one addressed. Should your acquaintanceship and cognisance of their reputation be very slight, it is only, fair to the friend to whom you are writing to mention this, rather than to convoy the false impression that your personal experience of tho individual you are favouring with an introduction is surely for their integrity. On tho other hand, with someone well known to you, whether on the social or business side, it is very helpful for every-' hotly concerned if you described their particular attainments and pretensions, or any other details which will enable the introduced and those in receipt of the introduction to arrive at a common ground of understanding and interest without delay. Letters of introduction should always bo left unsealed when handed to those presenting them. A closed envelope might suggest that it was desirable the contents should not 100 perused until its delivery. For this reason communications of this description ought, not to be of too personal a character, and should lie written with regard to their nature as open documents. P. IT. E„ in tho Daily Chronicle.