One of the many great offerings in the book and art lists by Douglas Stewart, Melbourne , is the August 1927 striking cover, drawn by black and white artist Hugh Raymond McRae . Over the years, this blog has run posts about the Triad , a high class publication , started in Dunedin, New Zealand ,in 1893,edited by controversial teacher, journalist,music and drama critic , Charles Nalder Baeyertz. It covered music, art , and science , later literature and politics, widely read throughout Australasia .
An assistant editor was much travelled bon vivant journalist and author Frank Morton ,who had a colourful life in Singapore and India ,keeping company with Annie Besant ,the British theosophist ,women's rights activist and campaigner for Irish and Indian home rule .
Triad, produced in Sydney from l915 , claimed to be the national magazine of Australia and New Zealand , until it folded in 1927, becoming the New Triad late in life . It provided strong competition for The Bulletin.
