Scientific students may be referred to the Works of Hooker and Dieffenbach, to Von Haast"s "Geology of Canterbury and Westland,"
Kirk"s "New Zealand Forest Flora," Sir Walter Buller"s "Birds of New Zealand," Hudson"s "New Zealand Entomology," and to the papers of Hector, Hutton and Thompson.
Dr. Murray Moore has written, and written well, for those who may wish to use the country as a health resort.
Mountaineers and lovers of scenery should read Green"s "High Alps of New Zealand," and T. Mackenzie"s papers on West Coast Exploration.
Mannering Fitzgerald and Harper are writers on the same topic.
Murray"s guide book will, of course, be the tourist"s main stay.
Delisle Hay"s Brighter Britain deals in lively fashion with a settler"s life in the bush north of Auckland and in the Thames goldfields. Reid and Preshaw have written of the Westland gold-seekers; Pyke of the Otago diggings. Domett"s "Ranolf and Amohia"
is not only the solitary New Zealand poem which has achieved any sort of distinction, but is also an interesting picture of Maori life and character.
The Official Year-Book is a ma.s.s of well-arranged information, and the economic enquirer may be further referred to c.u.min"s "Index of the Laws of New Zealand," and to the numerous separate annual reports of the Government offices and departments. Historical students must, of course, dive pretty deeply into the parliamentary debates and appendices to the journals of the House of Representatives, into the bulky reports and correspondence relating to New Zealand published in London by the Imperial authorities, and into the files of the larger newspapers The weekly newspapers of the Colony are especially well worth consulting. For the rest, Collier"s New Zealand Bibliography (Wellington), and the library catalogues of the N.Z. Parliament and of the Royal Colonial Inst.i.tute, London, are the best lists of the books and pamphlets on New Zealand.
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