NEW ZEALAND PIONEER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEW ZEALAND PIONEER.

A SCOTTISH NOVEL,

RUSSIAN CIRCULATIONS,

A review in the "Times Literary Supplement" of January 24 o£ "Marsden's Lieutenants" (edited by Professor Rawson Elder) expresses tho opinion that the production is highly creditable to the University of Otago. This second volume, however, lacks in tho opinion of the reviewer in one sense the value of the first. Marsden's records are of permanent interest because they portray the Maoris of the North Island as they seemed, at the time of their lirst contact with white men, to an acute and diligent observer. Tho letters and journals of Kendall, Hall and King fall far short of this standard."

Miss Nolle Scanlan writes from London:—"l was speaking to Mrs. Willie Percy, wife of the small comedian so well known in New Zealand with the old Pollard Opera Company years ago, and she told me that his book, "Strolling Through Scotland," had been so successful that he is now at work on one about England. He will illustrate it in the same way with his sketches and etchings. Willie Percy is now appearing in pantomie in Glasgow. He is an annual event up there, and was obliged to leave tho cast of a London play to appear for his Scottish friends." "Strolling Through Scotland" was reviewed recently in these columns.