Shibli Listens In.

“Smith's Weekly” now has a New Zealand representative, Mr. A. North. He is both correspondent and business representative, with headquarters in Auckland. This is the first time for several years that “Smith's” has been represented in New Zealand. Messrs. Will and Eric Lawson occupied this position in the first place.

Rumours of a New Zealand sporting weekly sponsored by a leading New Zealand weekly.

Jonathan Cape, the head of the London publishing house, is due in New Zealand early next year.

Alan Mulgan's “Home” (his first novel “Spur of Morning” is reviewed in this issue) has been given a new form in Longman's Swan Library of reprints. The first edition of this work should be valuable in time.

Hector Bolitho has written his autobiography. It will be published shortly by Cobden-Sanderson. New Zealand literary reviewers of a few years ago will be feeling anxious.

Am watching with interest the literary peregrinations in London of Ian Donnelly. Ostensibly he left here for a holiday. I think he is too clever for London to lose him.