REVIEWS.

Otaki Mail, 17 January 1923, Page 2

REVIEWS.

Weldon's Bazaar of Children - .-, Fash ions (Ninas and New Year) is a won

dcrtul number. The gratis patterns include girl's frock, evening dress (0 to S years) petal dunce frock, smart coat <-l to I) years), Magyar tunic (1 to - years;. This splendid number contains a beautiful coloured supplement id' an original fancy dissis and ideas for Christmas gifts to make •:>i the lust moment; a clever toy ycVcan make for the children which will cause no end of fun; new games and hints for arranging a successful children's party animal knitted clo!lv|fflffi lull and a pretty frock u" ' ]/jt~»liny tot. Children's page. riddWs, new competition for children; free lesson in making child's combinations and petticoat; cookery recipes. The children'a Xnias pudding, cakes and sweets. Many famous writers are represented in the latest issue of the Vellow Magazine duted Ist December, now ly hand. These include Alan J. Thompson, Fred M. Whito and Leslie Baresford, and •lame- Barr contributes a remarkable. story, "The Vengeance ol the Madman." T, C. Wiguall and G. D. Error continue their brilliant serial 'Atoms,' and J. Kussell Warren commences a very entertaining aud humorous series entitled "Tho Intervention':* of Professor Tele path."' Tile- above may be secured from Mr rswitt, Otaki Railway, or Mi L, G. Lo>rry, Main Street. "HUMOUK" AKD FUN. "Humour."' the magazine of mirrfi and wit, has many laughs that will h<ilp to cheer up the up*" vear for thousands of people. It is a home paper that caa be read by every member of the family, and whether a man is a farmer, a .-portsiican, a motori-t or of every- occupation, or none at all,'he will find a. joky touching his daily life. The woman and the child will also find some fun that touches right home, so widely cosmopolitan is the magazine in its humour. " Humour'-' gives in a singly is.sue extract* from the world 's famous witty papers and the greatest fun-mak-ers in art and literature all over Europe and the Continent are represented in its pages. This is a. truly remarkable public action, aud coming as it dotal, from the office of "Aussie," humour and clear wit is the key-note of every issue. THE WORLD'S LAUGH.

" Humour," the laughing magazine, established by the proprietors of "Aua.sie" and published on th*: 7th and 21st Of each month i= a remarkable production of wit and humour. TLs f££cess of "Humour" seen:/' <-:> efforts of the publishers to meet the cosmopolitan taste of the Australasian people, and in this regard the aims have been fully attained. "Humour" has the merit of being produced locally, and giving as it doe 3, the cream of the illustrated jokes, stories and sketches from the world'.- funniest papers, readers are able to obtain for 3d a wonderful collection of mirth-provoking matter. Among the papers from which ■'Humour" is t.-ipplied with its fua are numbered the London "Punch." "Passing Show,-" "Tit-Bits," "Pearson's Weekly," f London Opinion," "Sketch," "Weekly Telegraph," "Answers," "Edinburgh Scotsman," "Life," "Judge," "Wayside Tales,"

. "Buffalo Express," "Boston Trani script/' "California EeKcaa," "Sat- [ orday Evening Post," "Ladies' Home Journal," "New York Tribune," 1 "Chicago Herald," "Stray Btorics," ; and a dozen other English-speaking I magazines. The foreign papers in- | elude:—"Martin," "Le Bice," "Le , Begirnent." " L 'Elbeavein " (France), 1 "Kasper" (Sweden), "Karikaturen" I (Norway). "De Amsterdam©*' (Hol- ! land). "Simplicisaimus'! (Germany), : and "Die Huskete" (Austria). Other conatri's artisti and writers art . represented in ". Humour" aro 1 Spsin and Nor»FKr. - .