New Publications

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 28, 13 July 1905, Page 20

New Publications

' The Red Funnel '

On Tuesday last a select gathering assembled at the offices of Wilkie and Co., Dunedin, to celebrate the issue of the first number of a new monthly literary magazime, ' The Red Funnel.' The new literary venture is issmed under the auspices of the Union Steam Ship'iCompany, is edited by Mr. Brown, amd ib publish.ci9^bij Willie and Co. It starts with a guaranteed monthly circulation of some 16,000. The manner in which it has leaped so suddenly into public favor is sufficiently explained by the remarkable excellence, of the magazine both on itis literary and artistic side. It comprises 92 pages of a high class of reading matter and a great number of illustrations, the bulk of which are from original wash-drawings and pen-and-ink sketches by that accomplished artist. Mr. Hawcridge. Up to tne present time the magsv/ine literature of Auslralasaa has been sicklied o'er with the pale hue of baldly tolerable mediocrity. But the present literary venture makes its bow in the full blossom of a sudden success, and with a wealth and 'sariety and high-water of contents that the best English illustrated maga'/ines might well envy. And yet it sells at the modest price of sixpence. The name of the Union Company, and a 'glance at the portly bulk of its advertising pages, are sufficient guarantee of 1 The Red Funnel ' from the commercial standpoint. This handsome magazine has come to stay. It will take a high and legitimate place among the best magazine literature of the Empire, and we heartily wish the plucky venture the full and flowing 'measure of success which was promised to it by the gathering that witnessed with so much surprise, last Tuesday, the high artistic and literary merit of the advance copy of the first (August) number which was placed in their hands.