FOR THE CENTENARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 29

FOR THE CENTENARY

Jarrolds, the London publishers, re-j cently inaugurated the "My Country" series, in which. each author writes from his own personal angle a study of the various countries and the character of their peoples. The following volumes.have already appeared:—"My England," by - Edward Shanks; "My Scotland," by A. C. Macdonell; "My Ireland," by ; Lord Dunsany; "My Wales," by Rhys Davies. Dr. A. J. Harrop, writes our London correspondent, has been asked to write the "New Zealand" volume, and he has begun to do so. The length of each volume is approximately 80,000 words. To give some sort of unity to the work, Dr. Harrop is trying to picture New Zealand as it gradually revealed itself to him from his early days in Westland, Oamaru, and Christchurch, through the period of his investigations into the early' records of the Dominion in London, to the present day. He hopes to deal at some length with such topics as the newspapers, the sport, the literature, and the educational position of the Dominion. There will be a large number of illustrations and Dr. Harrop is trying to secure representative pictures of j 'different sides of the country's attractions and activities. It is hoped that the volume will appear in good tim^ for the Centennial. |