MR WAKEFIELD'S BOOK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2281, 15 November 1889, Page 2

MR WAKEFIELD'S BOOK.

The Wellington correspondent ot 1 the " Lytteltoa Timea " says :— Tho V| Er<snlng Press" has a very approolatlvo notioe of Mr Wakefield's book on' New Zealand. The talented author, we loaro, haajlke the Dutoh painters of old or our Wilkle. produced a series of delightful piotures ot oar homes and the Incidents of our dally lifo ; statistics m his handa are analogous, to the figures In one of Mr Glad-tone's. Budget speeches j no naturalist, or .other than he of Selborne, could have told moreclearly, yet with suoh a oharm of simpledlotlon, the wonders of the '* Aweeto,'\or vegetable caterpillar; no story oan be* better told than the story of FrUr Tuok, the father of the agriculture of New Zealand, and the oloneer of Its grain trade; every New Zaalander ot experi-. enoa will deolare that the obapters on ••The, oolony aa It is," and •' The w'oite papulation,'' form the most exactly ' Wrathful and most Intelligible, most crumple.*, and yet oharming aooount of what they profess to desoribe. " It j B not o ui purpose to give our readers an analysis o£ the book, it is enough co say that the short history of the Islands. „_ n _ of the foundation of the Colony ; the acoount of the Maori poor/.Q, and the chapters on the fauna and flora; on politics and laws ; all show the came clear and . discriminative apprehension of the salient faots whioh distinßuiehes the rest of the book. Mr Wakefield throughout writes with *■ thejudgment and certainty of a man who>ha& completely mastered the nub jeat* npoa which he discourses, and wh© has thot ability and discernment to express aa Opinion which csnnot be gainsaid. Tha book, whioh is printed and published by Oaesell and 00,, is admirably got up, and the paper aud typography are exceptional ly good." Mr Wakefield, I hear, i» likely to be out again before long, ' •