PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 4033, 30 June 1931, Page 65

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

We have received from the author, Mr A. P. Barnett,, a copy of a “ World Calendar in Chronological Order with a New Nautical Table,” of which “ The truth for truth’s sake ”is the motto. By giving dates to certain biblical episodes it works out a plan of the future from prophecy. The booklet was printed at the Monotone Art Printers Pty., Limited, 54-58 Liverpool street, Hobart.

The June number of Community Planning—the official organ of the Town Planning Institute of Neu«, Zealand—contains some very* interesting reading matter —“ Regional-planning and Public Economy,” “ Regional Highway Planning,” “ The Open Space about Buildings,” “ Development of the Motor Industry in New Zealand,” and “ A Town Planning Act of the Seventeenth Century,” being some of the outstanding articles.

“ Cricket—Off the Field,” “ Making a Rush-Seated Stool,” “ Bridges and their. Functions,” “Emblems, Initials, and Mintmarks,” “ How Aeroplanes are Made,” “ The Stamps of Jamaica,” “ Making a Gramophone Record,” “ A Camping Boat,” and “An Alpha Monoplane,” are among the articles which make the Boy’s Own Paper for May (Gordon and Gotch) such a useful, interesting, and healthy magazine for young people. There are also short stories and a serial, all of which deal with adventure in such a way as to appeal to the finest instincts of the reader.

The April issue of Pearson’s Magazine (Gordon and Gotch) contains four very interesting articles illustrated from photographs;—“ The Home of Our King and Queen,” by H. Clifford Smith; “My Guide to Spring Gardening,” by Maurice Lane-Norcott; “Great Monuments All,” by A. B. Cooper; and “Letters of a PreWar Father to his Daughter,” by F. E. Bailey—as well as special humorous sections and short stories by E. .Phillips Oppenheim, Bertram Atkey, Denis Mackail, G. R. Malloch, C. E. Young, Ethel Lina White, Harry Graham, and Erie A. Wilson.

Good reading is to be found in the June number of the Wide World Maga-, zine for men (Gordon and Gotch). Lovers of “ straight adventure ” stories will find half-a-dozen, items which cannot fail to grip them, while open’-air students will revel in Mr Mossman’s variegated experiences as a game-warden in the great North-west. Students of the occult, moreover, can puzzle their brains as to the explanation of the mystery described in “ The Sacred Tree ” —the old

theme of a native curse that came home to roost, but with a decidedly new twist to it.