"ATARETA".

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12910, 26 February 1906, Page 2

"ATARETA".

" THK 15KLLK OF THE KAINGA."' By A. A. Grace. New Zealand Railway Library. No. 1. (Wellington. Gordon and Uotch Proprietary, Limited.) " Voih u:i beau debut." Tlie travelling " public will welcome in this graceful little book the tirst appearance of the New Zealand Railway Library. There has been a distinct wan? of such an edition in the past, a want which the casual services of the bo-kst.ill proprietor and itinerant newsvendur have not supplied. A saw 31 bandy vxhtnie was required, of attractive apjtt-iij.iiKc. briijhtiy written in light vein with «(•!! mim (tinea interest, and calcuhucd t<> d'.'v::::y ii'iu [\rn to three h.uis in s : and Mr Grace has wejU .vat:.;:s:a a:. i;:e -„• ie<jui:cinen'„s in the work under levii-v. The tender :u.d pathetic little b.v; sv.jy of Ataret.x and Tikitapu thtiM-'s its way a deeply interot-.ie-r-iji;;-.!) <•; the simple life in the hi *iv e.«:iy tlayn of the r.y. when ti> "i\." was sw!:ina but si-jail ' he:«i-.vay (.jaii:-.; j;,.- heitht-:.i«-in «f 'he Ma .r:. 1;: "1 he ni iJiki *" a hiir.ii!!< r> n Is «:v«n the *' »fc««K «•: ;he artist whet.; tnakittc •< "«j ••!:«" uWiais hi —a painful »!.»! \d,;-;ious «-juration calling f«r' gieai sk:j! < is the pa:t «<:' :h-? artist in the use of i:l- boj.e ch: els. and for much enriuranie nr. the part <>f the subject. Fishing by means ni the !h<x brisket «.r prw.»ka :s ais'i <!«"•<■! i'H'j. all ««~oup.'<l attended with many sisks. rm th? Ic-iM (if which was llie 'ear «: beiair -k-V' umJ by the fabulous monster of the deep, she: "taniwha." The eveiyday pursuits >»f the inhabitants o; the kainga are detailed in a lnanue: the author's knowledge of Maori ways and cUst: ms. a knowledge which < in havc been acquired «niy by long anil careful study or personal experience. Theie is a well "ntstained plot ending in the, iiacjic death of A tare: a bv suicide in, Te Reiiura Falls, the Maoii Hades, but the fate of Tikitapn is left to conjecture. The iiiih-c's pen has Inst none -t She fieshnes* ami power that disiini;uish-rd hi* •'Tales of !>•-. Rare." and which have given hint an unique jv sit inn as a wiiter on Maoti. history and leswds. The volume is excep" :• wr'l printed and bound, in n. si/f -t'iiv! t« si : ji ir.t any ordinary pi cket, and jeflpfts c -«T rsedit upon both pj inter -i«d The second volume will be awaW-d wi:h h»!ercst. and she ~f iSj- ei.'ent pj«nii>*« a mh ocssfsi! : ivs"p s">b':i:ii!.uis MMP • " appr£<im<" bv ;lie f- r ivlinm thev "u.U-nde