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Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 4 March 1908, Page 69

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Tho International Review. — Mr Fnher Unwin's new venture i<s even more excellent and absorbing in tho January number than in the Dertmbr>\ which launched it upon the literary vvorH. In the light of later tragic developments tho article on "Kinsr and People in Portugal" will bo road w'th very great hiierp-t. Written before the tremendous tragedy of the double assassination, tho writer ovprr-sps a view of the preceding Ftatc of affaiis which tho universal observance of the principle contained in • "Do mortuis 1 nil nisi tonum" now naru- ' rally holds in abeyance. In "The German 1 fHurchce, a Vie* from Within," Professor

ftade affords much rooir for thought. The ■'Socialist Ideal in Art," by Walter Crasse, is a pleasant sketch ; and "A New Type of School." as described by a New York woman writer, is of great interest; while , "The Future of Art in East and West," by the editor, adds to the undeniable charm of the letterpress the attraction of eight illustrations of a most interesting ehaiac- "" ter. The article on "The Labour Party in Belgium" is as engrossing as it is brief. , In the second number of the International, however, as in the first, I find the most powerful feature of the Review lies in : that portion devoted to "The World's Proj gress." Here are the concisely-treated 1 i topics of politics, economics, eocial reform, Labour movements, literary progress, and . artistic tendencies, all considered and sipI marised by special writers : and the thing as well and 1 admirably done. The Review of Reviews for March, beside presenting its utual features of Current ] History in Caricature {which, by the way, | embodies many good things this month), i Leading Articles in the Reviews, Progress ' of tho World, etc., contains the following ; original articles :— First, the character sketch of the month, written by the veteran ' editor-in-chief, and devoted to the- life and character of the late William Stead, his : eldest and deeply-loved son. There is very touching in the simple ! directness of this personal appeal to tho sympathies of his readers throughout the world, and however one may regard this I attitude, the situation remains full of ' human appeal. Among the origina-1 articles , will be found "The Conquest of the Air" 1 and "The Naval Status Quo." The Pall Mall Magazine for February ~ relies principally for literary sensation on the second instalment of Wells's exciting serial, "The War in the Air," and deftly advertises the fact in the clever coloureci cover illustration. Mr Wells appears likely to reach his highest point of imaginative realism in "The War in the Air," comi bining future scientific developments justii -fied by present progress with that masterly I presentment of the working-clase Londoner with which he presented us in "The Wheels 'of Chance." There are plenty of short. , stories standing to the credit of goodmagazine writers ; and Jo«er>h Conrad continues his serial, "The Duel"; and Alberf Dornngton his "Stories of a South SeaBuccaneer" ; while "The Sybil of Venice." i under which title Rachel Swete Macnamara has already contributed some cleverlv-toldl episodes, reaches its fourth instalment. Among the articles Sir William Treloar'a Glimpses of London City" stands preeminent, if only for the extreme beauty of the photographic studies with which it is lavishly illustrated.