26 SEPTEMBER 1885, Page 23

Kandhansalia : a Romance of Hawdii. By C. M. Newell.

(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Kameham4 ha, the founder of a dynasty of kings, was certainly a remarkable man, the Napoleon of the Pacific, whose con- quests might have been indefinitely extended but for the circum- stance that he was born in the middle of an isolating ocean. We should, perhaps, have preferred to hear the sober reality of his story rather than this romance. The reality is, indeed, romantic enough. Still, he makes an interesting subject with what Mr. Newell calls " The Mystery of his Birth, Loves, and Conquests."