Percy P0,110; or, the Autobiography of a South-Sea Islander. (Griffith
and Farran.)—This book has an appearance of genuineness, Percy P0,110; or, the Autobiography of a South-Sea Islander. (Griffith and Farran.)—This book has an appearance of genuineness,
not perhaps, as actually an autobiography, but as the work of some one who knows his subject. The difficulty, it is true, occurs on p.31. How did the "South-Sea Islander" get possession of the "infant alligator," which appears in the miscellaneous cargo with which he and his companions put out when they went to trade with the white men? Apart from this, we get what looks like a picture drawn from life, or from very careful study of authorities of life in the Pacific, of the islands as they were in the old heathen days, of the doings of missionaries, traders, and dealers in native labour. The account given of these last is consistent with much that has been said before on the same subject. The trade in "free labourers" is so dangerously like trade in "slaves," that one is strongly inclined to say that it should be absolutely prohibited.
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