RECENT OXFORD BOOKS

Te Ao Hou, March 1967, Page 59

RECENT OXFORD BOOKS Narrative of a Residence in New Zealand and Journal of a Residence in Tristan da Cunha. AUGUSTUS EARLE Edited by E. H. McCORMICK Augustus Earle was the first artist who spent some time in New Zealand painting the New Zealand scene. He lived for nine months in the Bay of Islands in 1827–8. The Narrative of his experiences is one of the best descriptions of this country in the years before colonization. The present edition, the only complete version since the book first appeared in 1832. contains the fullest account of Earle's life yet published and an introduction based on missionary records and other manuscript sources. The book is fully illustrated with monochrome and colour prints of Earle's paintings, many here reproduced for the first time. 71s 6d New Zealand Letters of Thomas Arnold The Younger. Edited by JAMES BERTRAM Thomas Arnold, brother of Mathew and son of Dr Arnold of Rugby, came to New Zealand in 1847 and spent two years mainly in Wellington and Nelson. His restless life was touched by most of the great causes—religious, political and social—of his own time. His letters to his family and friends in England give a fascinating glimpse of early colonial New Zealand and of the liberal ideas which were common to many of the first generation of New Zealanders. (For the University of Auckland) 78s 0d For lists of Oxford books please write to OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Box 185 Wellington