Phoenix: A quarterly review published by the Literary Club of the Auckland University College. Vol. II., No. 2, June, 1933.

The Phoenix has grown up quickly. Within a year it has emancipated itself from the self-conscious soulfulness of the Adelphi and survived what threatened to be a fatal attack of Marxian phrase-mongering. it now stands on its own feet as a serious and well-written literary and political magazine with a character and outlook distinctively its own. This puts it in a class right apart among New Zealand University periodicals; in fact Phoenix will well bear comparison with similar magazines published anywhere.

The incisive and pungent editorial comment on the New Zealand scene is particularly welcome-the high priests of Mumbo-Jumbo have hitherto got away with it much too easily and much too often.

We only regret that as we go to print the September number is not yet available for detailed review, but we trust it will reveal the freshness of feeling and fine craftsmanship of the June issue.

Sirocco: The Caxton Club, Canterbury University College, July 1933.

The contributors to Sirocco are rather obviously treading warily and their little journal is much less provocative than its ill-starred predecessor Oriflamme.It contains five short prose pieces and three poems —none of them remarkable but all of them worth printing. The main faults are those of immaturity—sweeping generalisation and lack of coherence—but given time and opportunity there is no reason why these should not be outgrown. For the present the important thing is that Sirocco provides another vehicle of expression for students with something to say.