The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 October 1934Vol. V, No. 3

September B.P. Magazine

p. 54 · Read in the full issue

“One good picture is worth a mile of type,” once remarked an ancient sage well-versed in the art of newspapers and presswork. To-day, he would have an unenviable task calculating how many square miles of cold type would be equal to the numerous beautiful photographs in the September number of the B.P. Magazine.

A feature of this issue is a series of exquisite art studies of Melbourne. The photographers, anon, to capture the quiet beauty of Melbourne in all its light and shade, and the results are photographic gems.

A reproduction from a watercolour drawing by Walter Jardine titled “Sing Sing Dancer in New Guinea’’ makes a colourful and striking front cover.

Travel articles, short stories, news and notes on music the drama, and the fine arts, together with a selection of poetry by well-known Australian writers complete the -September issue of this splen-

didly printed quarterly.