New Zealand Illustrated.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42787, 5 October 1905, Page 3

New Zealand Illustrated.

A-COLONIAL PRODUCTION

“New Zealand Illustrated,” for 1905, the “ "Weekly Press ” Christmas Number, which is just published, is a splendid production, and surpasses every annual that we have seen. The cover especially marks a great advance: its design is so simple, so striking, and so artistically beautiful that it must he a source of pleasure to everyone who sees it, and of pride to New Zealanders generally, for this, like the rest of the annual and the two supplements, is designed and printed by the ‘ l Weekly Press ’ ’ staff. The contents of this 1905 “New Zealand Illustrated” well justify its name, for its 103 pictures include scones of beauty an 1 interest from every part of the colony. Special features are the remarkable studies in Maori life and character of Mr. Chas. M. Phillips, some of whose contributions this year, e.g., “An Easy Canoe,” “ After the Manner of their Ancestors,” and “Erena” are true masterpieces; the magnificent alpine pictures of the Rev. Henry E .Newton, two of whose panoramas are well worthy of framing (and with these may he mentinned Dr. Herz’s “ The Hochstetter Icefall ”) and the bird-life photographs of Mr. Edgar Stead, particularly the great flights cleverly caught in the air and in focus. The fiction is as usual by the foremost writers of light literature of the day, and we observe that the editor gives first place to a story by a New Zealander, |Mr. Alfred A. Grace, of Nelson. The principal suppl merit this year is Mr. W. Dittmer’s “Maua,” a groat picture. It presents to us the brave and crafty chief, Te Heu-heu V., lost in deep musing upon an ancient mere, heirloom of his :ribe, and upon the fame, the prestige, the power, the ■'Maun” of the brave and crafty warrio: - d'efs. his iV.i-ibo..rs. Never before has such a picture been painted, and j it is very probable that wo shall not sec one to ' ef|iial it. in powerful expression of the t-li iracier of tile Mouri. TiN reni i.-k I'i’o painting has been reproduced in the sumptu- 1 om style to which the “ Weekly Press ” I has accustomed us. Auother excellent j supplement, beautifully printed in most j modern fasliii d, is “ The Mauawatu Gorge.’ With the c-hromolif ho picture this will doubtlass find a place on the walls of many homes. The two plates are given gralis with the annual, whoso price is a shilling. We ] know no better bargain.