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Notable New Zealand Trials.

In “Notable New Zealand Trials,“Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell, the well-known Wellington solicitor, has scored a distinct success.

Turn up the book at any page and there you find something of absorbing interest—some sidelight on human character or emotion, some reference to the facts and fiction of the past, some telling argument or comment drawn from sound reasoning or profound knowledge.

Mr. Treadwell's style is terse, his facts are the result of intimate research, and each story is treated in a distinctive and masterly manner.

As a study in criminology the book bids fair to become a standard work of reference, whilst for human appeal, the “Trials” outshine most of the more remarkable imaginative stories of this type.

A large number of “Trials” have already appeared, in illustrated form, in the “New Zealand Railways Magazine,“but readers will appreciate having these, together with many others in the same series, assembled in book form.

The publication itself is a splendid example of the printers’ art applied to the making of an easily handled and easily read publication. In choice of type and lay-out the book is definitely attractive. The printers, Thomas Avery & Sons Ltd., of New Plymouth, have done work well up to the best world standards.

New Zealand has seen many notable trials—and doubtless will see many more. It is a subject of perennial interest at such times to refer back to the circumstances of past events, where points of similarity might be detected. As people talk much of these affairs, they can make their conversation more interesting and better informed by reference to this volume, which covers an extraordinary range of human interest trials and is published at the comparatively low price of 7/6d.