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Te Ao Hou, Spring 1954, Page 20

and a contemporary of the Maori ‘greats’, and one of the participants in that memorable schoolboy trek which in effect marked the turning point for the Maori race. For that reason the incident will be regarded with some significance, if not with reverence. It is a pity that Man of Two Worlds had not been more carefully read in the proof stages. Then blunders such as an index reference to a former Prime Minister as ‘Sir Gordon Coates’ might have been avoided. However, production errors notwithstanding, this biography of Sir Maui is worth reading even if it does not add a great deal of new material to that which is already widely known. Like the book on another great Maori, the late Sir Apirana Ngata, much of the contents of Man of Two Worlds comprises quotations from speeches. Were ot not for these, in both cases the figures concerned might well have eluded their biographers. Man of Two Worlds is published by A. H. & A. W. Reed of Wellington (15/-).