LITERATURE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 39, 3 December 1842, Page 154

LITERATURE.

New Zealand, its Advantages and Prospects as a British Colony. By- Charles Terry, F.R.S., F.S.A. [London : T. &W. Boone. {Concluded from page 152.] We have now given our readers such insight as was in our power — be it more or less perfectly or imperfectly — into the representations of New Zealand, its prospects and resources, which Mr. Terry^ has laid before the mass of English readers. We attach importance to this book, not because we agree with it, for in many things we differ, but because there are so many reasons in favour of its being looked upon at home as an oracle on the subjects of which it treats. It is most necessary that the settlers in New Zealand should be made acquainted with every impression created or likely to be created with regard to them and their new country in the great mart from which come to them the parents of prosperity — capital and labour. In external and internal "getting up," here is altogether too respectable a volume to be passed by cursorily by any one in the slightest degree interested in New Zealand. On looking into it, the English reader discovers an air of general impartiality most unusual in books of this description ; evidently not oversanguine — a sign of wisdom in the eyes of the experienced ; nay, more, there is a tone .of almost discouragement and damp throughout, which (we doubt not with all honesty) is yet skilfully subdued into truth- ' fulness. Again, Mr. Terry is evidently of no party — belongs to no set — of the Company and their settlements he is almost wholly silent — of