Our recent occupation of Samoa has directed many British eyes
to the romantic isles of the Pacific. Amongst new books on that quarter of the globe we may commend the late John Lafarge's Reminiscences of the South Seas (Grant Richards, 16s. net), with coloured reproductions of the author's charming sketches of "the enchanted isles of Vivien "; Archdeacon Harper's recollections of fifty years of strenuous labour, in the shape of the breezy Letters from New Zealand (Hugh Rees, 3s. 6d. net), which he wrote to his friend Mr. F. St. John Thackeray; Mr. H. M. Vaughan's readable record of An Australasian Wander-Year (Martin Seeker, 108. 6d. net); A Century in the Pacific (Charles H. Kelly, 21s. net), an encyclopaedia of the remarkable progress made there by colonization and missionary effort, written by a score of experts under the editorship of Mr. James Colwell; and Isles Afar Of (London Missionary Society, 6d. net), an unpreten- tious but interesting handbook to Polynesian missions.
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