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represented in the Library. Some fine examples of modern fine printing are headed by the handsopie Golden Cockerel edition of " The Four Gospels." The drama section benefited by the addition of scarce editions of Dekker, Heywood, and others. A fine series of original editions of John Gait, the Scottish novelist, brought the Library holdings near to completeness. The works of Walter Savage Landor, much admired by Mr. Turnbull, were improved by one of his earliest works, the " Gebir," 1798, in its first edition. For many years the Pacific section has lacked one of the rarest and most important sources, the privately printed papers on Fiji of Sir Arthur Gordon, Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. Of these four portly volumes, two were bought ten years ago and the others were acquired this year. Gordon was Governor of New Zealand, 1880-83, and of Fiji 1875-80. He was made Lord Stanmore in 1893, and must be regarded as one of the greatest of colonial administrators in the Pacific. Alexander Turnbull early envisaged embracing the full colonial empire, and early material on South Africa, Canada, and the West Indies is not wanting. This plan was later circumscribed to the Pacific, but a survival of this wider interest remains in the noble and scholarly series of the Champlain Society of Canada. This great set was brought up to date, overtaking the arrears of the war years. Good collected editions of the works of Thomas Hardy and William Hazlitt built out nineteenth century English literature. Some attempt was made to purchase representative musical works and source materials of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as background to the literature and dramatic material. An early geography (1709) by de Medrano, with descriptions and maps of the Pacific before Cook, was an interesting addition to the geographical collections. The bibliographical reference section, already notable, was strengthened in several fields. For donations the Library is grateful to many good friends. Among a considerable contribution this year may be. mentioned the fine set of works on Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, presented by the First Church of Christ Scientist, Wellington. From the estate of the late Edmund Anscombe the Library was invited to select a collection of books on exhibitions and kindred subjects. The Catholic Mission Press of Guadalcanal renewed its depositing, so tragically interrupted by the war, of its texts in the languages of the Solomons, and the Melanesian Mission continued with its series in the native tongues of the New Guinea area. Duke University made a gift of its useful series of " Library Notes." Dr. H. F. von Haast accompanied' his gift of the MS. papers of his famous father with a specially bound volume of the biography itself. Potentially the most considerable group of papers received were those of the late Professor A. M. Hocart, one of the most eminent scholars and writers on the ethnology of the Western Pacific. These came from his executors, Lord Raglan and Professor Evans Pritchard, through the mediation of Mr. J. D. Freeman, writer and research scholar in Pacific anthropology. The material includes many original unpublished notes on philology, genealogy, and folklore, the text of books in preparation for the press, and of books that have been published. It is probable that some of this matter will be published by the Polynesian Society, but in any event it will prove a rich quarry for students of the native lore of the Western Pacific islands.

Approximate Cost of Paper.—Preparation, not given ; printing (713 copies), £BB.

By Authority: R. E. Owen, Government Printer, Wellington.—l 949,

Price 1.9.]

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