MAORI TALES
:: l^'^:' ::'^}'-:>:-—rV.-.:,-:/ ■„.■£■":.■ •'?. 'Av,l .Mr/, James Cowanvisjjdoing excellent i^k4^n iecdirdingft!iHla>dsterity Maori lore .arifotalpi^Pi^fisShe rightly says, thelMaon;;;HJß)S^c^angea; and.the wise old ken^ho,,jiergonifled thVitraditions . and the/distinctive 'culture'of. the'^raee -I* * infersts ): ;«, generation >,Jwhic]iiJin/eyjtab'ly/^niust : rely chiefly on books ;pakeha s for its :know^ ledge of; the ; ?stbry^^ and5 lore of the race: 'lii; f Wsr-; west- volume," Tales of ?the iMSorii'Bußh".(published by A. H. and he recounts in pleasant .ni'aniier stories illustrJß.tive ;of v the ways ■of |he past^ the customs and'beliefs ;of ;thefMaorij;and;incrdentsj of «frentier eohtacts 'of pakeha \ ajid: kMaor.i-r^the ilifd^/tt^reaip^w^Zealand^witnfiti ib'i^grojini Of^m6untai^?i rjl^ke>;^and river,v"<jf' Max swamp';(ana i:fern • plain. Htiniour and tragedy, are interwoven in these tales'^ all of which; are written with, a sympathetic. insight ■ and a ■ reaj knowledge^of the Maori _mind. The stories'■■"aresßome, thirty,, in,^^.number, .ana although.; some'i'.haye , previously ap-■ipeared-<in*pnnt,^the^Vwill"-eagily.^Btand; reading 'afresh, and vl the ■complete volume is one for every New, Zealander who takes an interest in his country's picturesque hittorg, /j_\
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1934, Page 24
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152MAORI TALES Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1934, Page 24
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