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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7978, 8 December 1911, Page 5

f.r- 7 i PARENTS! © Books your Boys should lead] irvie SPLENDID PRESENTS FOR THE ’XMAS SEASON 3 ® That the youth of New Zealand knows little, if anything about their native country, about its wonderful scenery, its beautiful flowers and plant life, its remarkable birds, and its romantic folk-lore and history, is a regrettable fact, and yet the remedy rests more with the parents than with the children. Teach the coming generation facts about New Zealand by giving them a present of any one of the following books. Simply told and beautifully bound and illustrated. MAORI WARS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by S. Percy Smith. F.R.G.S. S. Percy Smith, F.R.G.S. HAWAIKI, THE ORIGINAL HOME OF THE MAORI, by S. Percy Smith. Third edition, enlarged, illustrated . • •. ■ • • • • • • OLD NEW ZEALAND, together -with Hoke’s War in the North and Maning’s Maori Traditions, 351 pages, numerous illustrations, and an Introduction by Dr. Hocken, P.L.S. 5/THE STIRRING TIMES OP TE EAITPARAHA, and tho Sacking of Kaiapohia, by W. L. Travers and Rev. 0. J. W. Stack. 216 pages, fully illustrated THE STORY OF TB WAHAROA, and Sketches of Ancient Maori Lifo and History, by J. A. Wilson, latp Judge Native Land Court of N.Z ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND, by Ed. J. Wakefield. Edited by Sir Robert Stout, _ K.C.M.G. 760 pages, fully illustrated JOHN RUTHERFORD, THE WHITE CHIEF. Edited by James Drummond. Illustrated 3/6 2/6 t 3/6 7/6 3/6 BISHOP HARPER AND THE CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT. Second edition, revised and enlarged. By , 'Rev. 11. T. Purchas .. NINE MONTHS’ RESIDENCE IN NEW ZEALAND IN 1827, by Aug. Earle .. .. • • MUEIHIKU, a History of the South Island and Islands adjacent, 1642-1835. Illustrated. Demy Bvo. By Robert MeNab .i. •• 5/3/6 12/6 Sensible & Lasting Gifts for Adults K THE MAORIS OF NEW ZEALAND, by James Cowan. A study of the Maori race, showing something of their history, religion, mythology, customs, and social life and institutions. Tho notes used in this book wore gathered at first hand from the kaumatuas, the old and learned men, of many tribes. 356 pages, 61 maps and illustrations MAORI LIFE IN AOTEA, by Johannes C. Andersen. The reader is transported into a new world. The old Maori fisher, the bird hunter, tho warrior, are accompanied in their expeditions; we are at the side of the cultivator, tho weaver, the canoe and house-builder, tho tohunga; wo, see the birth, dedication, education and death of warriors god-descended; wo hear tales and omens, dream dreams, and feel the prophetic twitehings of lo: in short, we are with the Ancient Maori people in their every-day life. 675 pages. 49 illustrations. Cloth 15/-; full leather .. PLANTS OF NEW ZEALAND, by E. M. Laing, B.Sc., and E. W. Blackwell. With 160 original photographs by E. W. and P. B. Blackwell. Second and revised edition. 154 pages. Cloth, 12/6; half calf .. .THE ANIMALS OF NEW ZEALAND: An account of the Dominion’s air-breathing Vertebrates by Capt. F. W. Hutton, F.R.S., and J. Drummond, F.L.S., F.Z.S, Third edition, revised and enlarged. 407 pages. 152 illustrations. Cloth 12/6; full calf THE GEOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND, by James Park, Professor of Mining and Mining Geology in the University of Otago. An introduction to the historical, structudal, and economic geology. Demy Bvo. 488 pages. 145 illustrations. 27 plates and a coloured geological map .. BIRDS OF THE WATER, WOOD AND WASTE, by H. Guthrio-Smith. A first-hand study of New Zealand native birds by an enthusiastic ornithologist, furnish- - ing an interesting fund of information concerning kingfishers, ducks, wekas, pukekos, harriers, falcons, ground-larks, fantails, wax-eyes, warblers, fern-birds, tuis and pigeons. 204 pages. SO superb illustrations from life, four being beautiful photogravures - .. EMERALD HOURS IN NEW ZEALAND, by Alys Lowth (Author of “A Daughter of the Transvaal”). 141 superb illustrations. Crown 4to. Printed on art paper. Cloth 3/6; full morocco.. THE EXPLORERS OF THE EAST, CENTRE AND WEST OF AUSTRALIA, by Ernest Favenc. Cloth 12/6; full calf .. .. - • • - LIFE AND WORK OF RICHARD JOHN SEDDON, WITH A HISTORY OF THE LIBERAL. PARTY IN NEW ZEALAND, by James Drummond. 392 pages, illustrated. , Clotb 12/6; full calf .. .... THE ANIMALS OF AUSTRALIA, Mammals and Reptiles. By A. H. S. Lucas and W. H. D. Le Souef. Cloth 15/-; full cloth .. .. .. .. WILD LIFE IN AUSTRALIA, by W. H. D. Le Souef. Cloth 7/6; full morocco or calf 12/6 21/12/6 7/6 12/6 21/17/6 Whitcombe & i Tombs Lambton Quay fji M ~)s>