New Zealand for the Emigrant, Invalid, and Tourist. By John
Murray Moore. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a very useful book, well calculated to supply the information wanted by the classes for whom it is especially written. The author does well, in particular, in drawing attention to the various climates of New Zealand. A country extending over twelve hundred miles from north to south varies of necessity very considerably in temperature. When, in addition to this fact, one considers the mountainous nature of some districts, and the flatness of others, as, for instance; of Canterbury, and remember also the peculiarities of such regions as that of the Hot Springs, it is clear that the differences are very large. Such differences should be certainly understood by any one who may visit the islands either for health's sake or to make a livelihood. Now that prosperity is returning to the country, there must be many who will be glad to find these particulars put together in so convenient and accessible a form. Medical men do not always, we imagine, remember sufficiently well the character of the climate to which they send their patients. "Go to New Zealand." Very good; but to the New Zealand which is not more than two hundred miles above the latitude of the Falkland Islands, or to that which is about level with Monte Video ?
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