Ocean Of Islands’

Sewards Produce a Notable Book About the Pacific

AVERY notable compilation, “The Pacific, Ocean of Islands,” edited by famous naturalist, Charles Barrett, has just been produced by N. H. Seward Pty., Ltd., of Melbourne.

It is a well-bound, beautifully printed book of 200 crown-quarto pages, and each of the 16 sections, covering almost every phase of Pacific history and description, has been written by aii authority on the particular subject.

History is covered in three sections— Cartography of the South-West Pacific: French Navigators of the Pacific; and The Voyage of the Swallow, 1766-69. There is a section on Pacific Whaling; another on The Art of the Pacific; and a particu larly interesting one on The Literature of The Bounty, in which the scores of books based on the famous mutiny, and on what came later in Pitcairn Island, are reviewed.

There are sections on the Missionaries, on the Plants of the Pacific, on the Megaliths, on the Birds of Paradise and one—covering a very wide field, indeed— on The Novelists of the Pacific. Sir Peter Buck, in one section tells the story of the Bishop Museum.

There are about 60 illustrations, dealing with innumerable subjects. Many are rare. They have been carefully chosen and are most skilfully reproduced—some must have a unique value.

This is not a closely integrated des cription of the Pacific Islands; but, within the several sections and the numerous illustrations all of which have been cleverly edited and arranged—there may be found countless authoritative references to, and descriptions of, every facet of life in the Pacific, and of its picturesque history.

The book has been produced in a limited edition, and is being sold for Five Guineas.

Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Stewart left Sydney in early October on their way to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands where Mr.

Stewart has a Colonial Office appoint ment. They were formerly in Tan ganyika.