The Empress Fall on bhe Hooker glacier, bhe Remarkable?, THE EASTERN PEAK OF MOUNT EARNSLAW, ■£ these are pictures the like of whioh have not been eeen in this part of the world, comprising specimens of tho highest' ; class of the photographer's arb and demonstrating the perfection to which the ■ ziuc reproduction process has been brought, A now and entirely original poem, bused on tho immortal LEGEND OF HINEMOA is illustrated with four large pictures drawn by expert artists, and reproduced by the " Graphic's " secret beautiful photographic process, "Hinemoa'a Bath — The Dis covery," is a beautiful picture, occupying a whole page ; another shows Hinemoa listen ing for the Bounds of her lover's flute,and in | this the moonlight effects on the waters of Rotorua are wonderfully pourtrayed, The othor pictures are of e-jual merit, but space forbids a lengthened description. ' Tho competition stories have been illustrated by the foremost arbists, and are admirable in construction, plot, and working out. Mrs McLean, of Waikato, takes second prize, and Miss L. Rees's third, the first being awarded to a Christchurch lady. Of the splendid GIFT PICTURE, A PANORAMA OF AUCKLAND HARBOUR, there is no need to speak. It may bo seen displayed about town, and is without doubt the most costly picture given away by ■ any illustrated paper in tho colonies ; tho cost of preparing the stones alone was con | siderably over £250. j

"FRANK MELTON'S LUCK."

The Canterbury " Press " says : — " Out-1 wardly this book has the appearance of a j shilling shocker, bub inwardly it is crammed | full of love-making, adventure, description j of station, goldinining, an _ bush-.ghting) I life in Now Zealand, togebher with quite a j respectable allowance of the history of tho j colony woven in." j I Wairarapa "Standard:"—"This is a! capital story. By its combination of! fiction with fact, of sbirring historical oc- j currences with love-making and up-country I race meetings, ' Frank Melton's Luck ' does something to roll away the reproach; j that we have no distinctive literature,! i nothing redolent of the land and life of, j New Zealand. 