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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1

[trade dispatches]

« To give free expression to the surging gangrene » is one of the neatest mixed metaphors we have seen for some time. It occurs in a leading article in an evening journal.

Some boys in Auckland, according to a telegram in a contemporary, have been sentenced to a flogging for « stealing fruit from orchids. »

Some of the New Zealand reporters are a little uncertain in the use of the plural. A morning paper lately reported the presentation of « a beautiful colon » to a volunteer corps. Not to be outdone, an evening paper the same day came out with « Counsels on both sides addressed the court. »

We have not met with any reference in the colonial press to the death of an Australian author of some note—Mrs M. J. Evans, better known as Maude Jeanne Franc. From the London Publishers' Circular we gather that she died at Adelaide, South Australia, on the 22nd October last. Her published writings consist of fourteen religious novels and nine or ten short stories. They are not of a high order of literary merit, but give many vivid and pleasing little glimpses of Australian country home-life. Some of them attained considerable popularity, and have passed through several editions.