PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 70

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

fh~ summer or August number of the Pall Mall Magazine 16 full of light >-eadin«. suitable for holiday-makers. The cover is a yachting design, ami there are some beautiful illusbratiorw throughout. One of these shows one of the delights, of golfingin India. The golfer and his caddie, in making- for the *>utt\ng green over a slicrlit rise, find a husre tiger stretched under the flag. Tha opening article is by the late Richard J<efferios. Then follows a descriration of " A Holiday in tho Wilds of Arctic Norway." Mr Oharks Pears contributes a df&criptive account of " Yachting on the Clyde," and Mr F/dga* Wilsor ore on "The Art of the Japanese Print." Fashions are not neglected. In addition to an instalment of the lat& F. Marion Crawford's s?ria!,"The New Governess," and half a dozen short etories, the. Pall Mali Storybook, which is a new feature contains no fewer than 14 complete short t-tories by vreilknown writers. The Windsor Magazine for Ausru.-t ,'s an attract ivo summer rfuniber, and includps complete stories by Baroness yon Hutten, K. and Hesketh Prichard, L. G. Mobeiley,

I and other favourite novelists, in addition j to a large instalment of Max Pembetrton's picturesque new serial, "White Walls." Charles G. D. Roberts is represented by OJiotbei fine Nature study ; and the Hon. Charles Russell contributes an interastiiwr paper on " The Invasion of Great Britain." whioh pecal's the occasion and locality of the many foreign attacks upon our shores, I fiom the Roman invasion of Julius Caesar i down to those of Wolfe Tone and Napper ! Tandy in 1796-8. Many interesting illustrations, portraits, and maps accompany this article. "The Quest and Cult of the Orchid" is the title of a paper in which many curious and interestinjr details are given as scthe difficulty with which rare orchids are obtained, and theii consequently surprising j value in ihe market The fine art feature I of the numbar deals with the work of Mr [ Rowland Wheelwright, and includes 11 admirable reproductions and a special I frontispiece plate.