“Lite" Welcomes the Fleet.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43366, 1 September 1908, Page 1

“Lite" Welcomes the Fleet.

Th* popular magazine ** Life " join* fit ' 1 the national chorua of American Fleet. Its cover design f great battleship looming through |fl| night, and the artist coyly not only the Fleet, but “ Life ’’itMdf,% , : welcome everywhere. There is, of course, an illustrated article pn the Fleet —no paper with any shred of ? is without its Fleet article—and V Life’s ** by the newspaper special correspondent* V J who are travelling with- the battleship#!: - 1 Other special articles are headed by An J ingenious and interesting exposure, by T. 1 K. Dow, of the fallacy that Australia is a h droughty waste, with, a fringe of fertility. - s t|| T. L. Dow, who is an expert agriculturalist and geographer, shows by mays :-||i and diagrams that in a margin of 250 ;J miles wide of the Australian. Continent " j could be placed all the countries Pi Europe, and that tie area left in the 11 middle would be a comparatively small jl one, less' than half of Eusria. , .The writer also quotes rainfall figures, aodfcjyl j compares the fertile area of Australia with ■ i Jl j that of Canada, showing an i immerse j advantage in favour of Australia. V j j I Dr. Fitchett, us usual, writeainforms-' O I tively and interestingly about; the chief doings of the world, and. in addition, ; I contributes a fine criticism of, Frederirk Traves’ new book, “ The Cradle fj of the Deep, as well as a thrilling . j chapter to his own series of Australasian history. The saind - Writer ; I who in July “ Life *’ undertook to eipmlwei: the creed of, Madame Blavatsky and . Annie Besant, continues the and J in an intensely interesting di&i iia scribes the methods by which aifeged i 3 spiritualistic messages were delivered. ' -Vfl The special articles ar& rounded off by a 1 personal sketch of General Gordon, and I an account of the late Stephen "If \ J part in a certain memorable bit ofs Ail*- a tralian history. On . the fiction 3 “Life” keeps up its strength,,Jui4 fc -I view of the Fleet’s visit give* pride. place war-ship story J credit to the imagination of JbliiS; ’Verde* a The Van Dusen detective series contmuea • J its course, and the shrewd old profea~*|c|t"|3 unravels the mystery of the Fraser’s Bank. A couple of short stories are also printed.' In thf )i'l regulation departments there is, asustml, avast amount of useful, up-to-d&te iu- 1 formation—literary, scientific,: spottra# 1 *'>‘;S| religious, poetical, and general. 9 picture-puzzle contest, in wlnob; jpeat 9 interest is heipg shown, draws to:« close, 1 and as the first prize is a first-class *#-. 9 turn passage to Japan, and there - are & J number of hard-cash prizes, it ia expected | that entries will be large. Altogether,, .ill “Life’’for August is an excellent penceworth. >|