WHITE MAORI
Sir-yYour leading article ‘White Maori" shows that you did not know what you were talking about in your last few sentences, and did not take the trouble to‘find out the various editions of Maning’s Old New Zealand. The first edition certainly was a difficult book to read, being published in New Zealand in 1863, with its small print, and I believe originally in paper covers; but there have been very many editions that could be, and were, afforded by
many. You say "it has never been possible to buy him well bound and finished at a price that every reader could afford." You add: "The new issue is as pleasant to read as earlier issues have been unpleasant." In 1898 Macmillan and Company issued this book in their famous "Colonial Library" bound in black cloth boards, beautifully printed in large clear print; which sold here for 3/6. Any second-hand shop of note in Wellington will show you a copy of this library-or should be able to-although not this book perhaps. So that explodes both your statements.
HENRY G.
SMITH
(Auckland).
(‘‘Never" was a bigger word than we should haye used. But our correspondent has not helped his case by citing Macmillan’s Colonial Library. The books in this were ceftainly cheap, but it is bold to suggest that they were pleasant to look at or read.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 486, 15 October 1948, Page 14
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