NEW ZEALAND ILLUSTRATED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 216, 18 October 1909, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND ILLUSTRATED.

While printing has advanced at a fair pace on general linos, its advance so far as Christmas annuals are concern*"! JuH been by leaps and bounds, is we are to judge by the issue of " New Zealand Illustrated/' the Christmas number «i

•' Tlio Weekly Press," which lias just reached us. Last year w« imagined. the acme of illustration had been readied will) "New Zealand Illustrated," but this year it leaves all past issues *is much behind a< it has for many yea s left all competitors. Though the subject matter of rts pictures may be equalled by specimens from previous issues, ill" beautiful designs ami blending of colors combine to place it in a class by itself. This) year much attention has been paid to the general elVect of colors, and to appropriate and quaint line designs. In these Mr. A. Kennaway, " The Weekly Preas" special artist, has easily su j passed all his former ell'orts, and di«I tinguislied the number equally with originality and beauty. The cover is an I excellent, example of his work, an original design of great beauty very I delicately printed. High quality pervades t'he book, so much so, that having opened it one finds it; impossible to stop I miitil the end is reached. To deal with 1 even the most prominent pictures would require far more space than we eoull give. The supplement this year must certainly rank as the best this paper lias yet turned out. and that is branding it as the be>»t seen in Australasia. If represents an elaborately tattooed Maori warrior of tlie old school, llimiona Te Pikikutukn, tlie "real Northern Chieftain. The painting from which the supplement is made is bv that celebrated New Zealand artist,' Mr. Sydney L. Thompson.