Shibli Listens In-Continued.

About four years ago a Wellington bookshop discovered several copies of the first edition of the same work stowed away on a book shelf. These were sold at the published price!

Since Ken Alexander commenced his series of humorous talks over the wireless there have been renewed inquiries for his “High Lights of Life.”

Big sales are predicted for “The Magic Story,” recently published by the Australian Book Publishing Co. A remarkable little book.

In the two days book sale of rare New Zealand, Australian and South African books (on account of Mr. W. J. Mc-Eldowney) recently held in Wellington, one of the items was No. 2 of the New Zealand Artists' Annual (1927).

I have received the first number of a monthly journal entitled “The Student's Digest.” It is a small paper containing informative notes on current affairs, and is to circulate through the higher standards of the primary schools and through the secondary schools. Certainly this little journal will be of great interest and help to young students, dealing as it does in a clear and forceful manner with current world problems. The Minister for Education (the Honourable R. Masters) in his foreword to the news-sheet, expresses the hope that the boys and girls of the Dominion may find the perusal of its pages both interesting and profitable, and that it may aid in the fostering among New Zealanders of a more intelligent interest in world affairs. The annual subscription to the paper is 1/6.

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