Five Years' Church Work in the Kingdom of Hawaii. By
the Bishop of Honolulu. (Rivingtons.)—This book is certainly wanting in colour. It gives us very little information and it does not attempt to amuse. But it is very moderate and candid in its tone, and wholly free from pre- tence. We gather from it that "Church work" does not advance very rapidly in Hawaii, that the Anglican communion is at present little more than an exotic fostered by Royal favour, but we also receive the impres- sion that its greater prosperity would be a good thing for the people. Perhapsthe most interesting thing in the book is the title-page with the portraits of the Kamehameha dynasty. Kamehameha I. the con- solidator of the monarchy, has a fine massive head. Kamehameha bears a ludicrous resemblance to George IV. (He visited England in 1821, and probably studied his great model.) The other faces are' interesting.
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