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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21019, 7 May 1930, Page 7

A HISTORY AND A ROMANCE “ Now, tliis with nil the long-drawn-out details of the New Zealand Company, with all the records of the disruption in the Scottish Church, with all the biographical matter of descent and family traits, may appear to be dry stuff to all but Scots of Otago. But the author has managed to present a clear-cut picture of a wonderful personality, and has cither deleted or failed to find tedious matter. For. reading the biography, and reading it ns a Northerner, I found it a romance, and I enjoyed every word of it.” Such is the striking tsstimony of Mrs F Carr-Rollett, in the Booksellers, Stationers. and Fancy Goods’ Journal, reviewing Dr Merrington’s book. “ A Great Coloniser: The Rev. Dr Thomas Burns.” Write to the publishers, the Otago Daily Times and Witness Company, Bos 181, Dunedin, or to your bookseller, for a copy. Price, 7s Od. plus postage 4d.— Advt.

It costs about £215,400 a year to run the British Museum; the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, costs less than half this-