BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9022, 29 October 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.

To Hawaii : The Paradise op the Pacific. ! Published by the Hawaiian Gazette Company.—We have to acknowledge receipt of the Tourist's Guide through the Hawaiian Islands descriptive of their scones and scenery. It has been compiled and edited by Henry M. Whitney. The work contains over a score of views illustrative of the scenery and public institutions of Honolulu, and maps of all the Sandwich Islands., The information concerning " the Paradise of the Pacific" and of the great volcanoes which are the wonder of tourists is of the fullest and most varied character. Attached to the work are cards containing time-tables and tariff rates of the Oceanic Steamship Company, and sketches of island life—fishing, surf bathing, etc. —with bird's eye views of the town of Honolulu and the harbour of Port Jackson, and of Sydney. To the tourists travelling by the San Francisco mail route the above guide book will prove invaluable. Review of Reviews.—ln the September number of the Australasian issue of the Review of Reviews is continued the sketch of Sir George Grey, in the series of articles," The Makers of the Colonies." We quote the following passage :—"Sir George Grey at eighty years of age might, in activity, energy, and persistence in what he believes to be a right course, put many a young man' to the blush. He is a living illustration of the value to the human frame of work and temperance—using the latter word in its widest signification. He works hard and eats and drinks sparingly. Though his dominant personality may have been prone to assert itself among his official superiors, and with his equals, to the humble he is invariably kind, thoughtful, and considerate. To the most commonplace member of the New Zealand Parliament he listens with as much deference and attention as he bestows upon the Premier. His moral courage is quite as remarkable as his physical. Whatever be the value of the measures he brings before Parliament, there he is to be found, year after year, patiently endeavouring to transmute them into law. undeterred by failure, and insensible to ridicule, resisting age, feebleness, and physical pain, and thinking only of the good work he has to do. In a remarkable degree has ho preserved the sensibility that is ordinarily thought to decline with advancing years. Sitting ab the dinner table during the last session of the New Zealand Parliament, the conversation turned upon poetry, and a member present quoted Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar.' When he had recited, with much feeling, the last verse— 'For though from out this bourne of time and space, The flood may bear me far, • 1 hope to meet my Pilot face to face, When I have crossed the Bar'— there wa3 a pause, during which the writer of this sketch saw Sir George Grey's eyes fill with tears, and a quiver passed over his lips. He asked thab the verses might be again repeated, and after the remark on the nobility of the lines, added, with a touch of great regret, 'What one loses by nob reading poetry!' Sir George Grey is seen at his worst in the limited sphere of New Zealand politics. It is given to few men to combine so many giftsundaunted courage, unwearied energy, persuasive eloquence, a knightly frame, the indefinable qualities that go to make a leader of men. New Zealand will remember him. as one who was honourably bound up with her history in its darkest hour, striving earnestly, and nob altogether vainly, to promote the welfare and happiness of the people."