SIR JAMES ELLIOTT
WELLINGTON'S EARLY DAYS The principal attraction in "The Hundred Years," by Sir James Elliott, is the detail given of early days in and about Wellington. Oliver Scott, lands near Kapiti in 1839, and 1855 is reached only after more than 200 pages. Half this number suffices to bring the story up to date; and so, though the first sixteen years' arc full of excitement and adventure, and arc intensely personal, the latter part of the book consists almost entirely of a superficial account of Now Zealand polities, from Grey to Savage, and the Scotts' reactions thereto. Their comments are nearly always wise, and perhaps too prescient. The hook is neither a novel nor a biography, and perhaps on this account it falls between two stools; but it is clearly and simply written, and the early part, at any rate, will be a valuable addition to our story of the past. "Tho Hundred Years " by Sir James Elliott. (Robert Ilale.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)
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