REVIEW.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2322, 7 January 1890, Page 2

REVIEW.

Eablt N»w ZnAiAKD.—*' The tarty ftutory of Neio Zealand a strange story of British pluck and adventure, of love and hate, of crime, of war and bloodshed, and of peaceful, Christian effort and selfsacrifice, Auckland: H. Brett, publisher, . ; :

Htndaomely bouod, admirably printed and ptofasely lllaitrated by moat excellent engravings and chrome-lithographs, .the first part of the ab ova work lies before v and it not only an exceedingly appropilatt memento of thy jubilee year of ihe colony bat also, a. worthy exampUficatlon of it« ptogrees in art and llteratare. The illo*tratloDi would do oredlot to the'Graphio r o! the ' Uluitrated London News/ and th» (etter-preei U eqaal to ihe beet efforts of London publishing firtrii, Having paid this welUdeserved tribute to what we may term the meohaoloal part of ths cod joint abors whioh bare produced., thla really iplendid work, let us now turn to the more Important psrt, the quality of the contents of the volnme, whichi !• presented in 10 atttac lye gus^' These will be found exceedingly interesting, balng •> wf*\\ written bUtdtfof New Za'.and from he ra.r.'!e-t d wu \o the preent time, Tne hi»t.)ti*De-ro .m^ny, the foundation beings the. msiiascrlpt of Mr J. H. Wallace, of Vfellington, who baifoifoity |WW bHB togH«4 lo wttttog «p ft fall;

Tory of the colony, and ibe work ino'udej Mt R. A. A. Sfaetrfn'B (<E«ly Hlatoryot New Ze*Usa,Jo 1840," and Mr WaUice s continuation of "tlio u&ooe to leao, a valuable historic*! review (hitherto onpobllihed) by Baron de Tbletry, blatorioal papers and sketches by the Bey R. Taylor, author oi "Te Ik» a Maul," sketches by Mt Oolenao, author o£ the " Official history of New Zealand," historical notes by Sir Georga Grey, Judge Wilson, Me 0. J. WHbod, and early roUulonarlea and aeitlera, the result being a cont'nuoas narrative fall of reliable information, sparkling with Inoldent, and replete with We and inlereit. Commencing with ■ reference to>. the discovery In 1846 by the Portuguese navigator, Bartholomew D!«Zj of the route to India wet the Oape cf Good Hope, we have ft reference to the rumored existence of • land in the Sooth Sets, subsequently treated of, In the year 1643, in a ■mall duodecimo volume dedicated to Pope Alexander the Seventh, and Intituled "Memolrfl relative to the establishment ] of a Ohvhtlan mission In the third wotld; othetwlie called the South Land, by »a eoeleßlaßlio, » desoandant from the Natives of this flame Und," the memoln ceoommendlng to Hli Holiness the case of "the poor miserable Australians who had groaned for io m»ny ages under the tyranny of Batan" So, Huk by link, the chain of the •arly history ef New ZeaUnd down to the discoveries of TwncaD add Oook Is pieced together, followed by interesting' acoounU of .. Cook's first, . secona and third voyages. Then oouies the story of the Franoh navigators, the hluory or the founding of »ew South Wales, nuh wfaioh New Zealand wbb »t first connected, Ihen the utory of trhs'lsg »nd sealing adventurers, followed by that of ml»-------■loaory enterprise in New Zealand, the beginnings of tettlement, and finally that of organised oolonlsntton, of which in th s year of graoe we are about to oelebrate the jubilee. Altogether the work is a most valuable one, and It should be added to every library, both pabllo and private. It Ik betog pabllshed In four ptrta; Fttrc I, which U now ready for dellvory containing a coloured frontispiece of a fern golly, and the following, among other •ngravlngs, viz., Taamsns Anchorage, Admiralty Bay, the murder of Tasman's boat's crew at Massacre B»y, the Tnree Kings *c lighted by Tasman, portrait of Captain Oook, relics tf Oiptaln Oook, faeilmllle of Cork's rcootd of the trauelt of Venus, a fortified village in Poverty Bay In 1836, iaodeo.pe of Poverty Bay, Te Arluro were Oook landed, perforated rook, To'ago Bay, Shakespeare Head and Oook B»y, Auokland, head of Te Rauparaba's canoe, Sbip Cove, Qaeen Charlotte's Soand; ftorfoik Xsmad; Waitaogl, Chatham leUnd ; eoene of tbe Boyd massacre; Kororakea Beach in 1836; Porlrna B»y j Ranglbaeta's P*h ; Thunos' whsllug station ; Taopo Pdb, Oook Stiaii; the town and harbor of Nelson In 1842, tte town of New Plymouth In 1843, besides numerous portraits, Mr J. b, Boss Is now vlsl.lng thla^wnt^a.district canvassing for tobsorlbeiß, and will, we have no doubt, meet with considerable ■upport at he hai already done In Panealn, Oamarn, Timaru and elsewhere,