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New Zealand Tablet, 7 December 1911, Page 2497

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Uncanny Country. By B. E. Baughan. Whitcombe and Tombs, Christchurch. This is a full, true, and particular account of all the interesting features of the Hot Lakes District; and both those who have, and those who have not, seen the marvels of the North Island Wonderland owe a debt of gratitude to the author of this fascinating.booklet. All is pleasant about it ; the paper is good, the letterpress clear and easy to read, and the illustrations very fine. But above all we have the work of a skilful and sympathetic pen. The gifted writer comes as near to making us see the marvels of the strange region as is possible to human' faculties. We can almost hear the thud and grumble underground, fear the tremble, hear the hissing and splashing, carry a wondering eye up, up the white columns of the geyser fountains ; and if we are conscious of failing to realise all the colors, it is doubtless due to their singularity, their weird unlikeness to aught we ever saw. The region has found a word-painter worthy of his subject, and alike to the traveller and - the stay-at-home we cordially commend the volume. Price Is.