30 APRIL 1898, Page 13

New Zealand Rulers and Statesmen. By William Gisborne. (Sampson Low,

Marston, and Co.)—This is a " revised and enlarged edition " of a work published in 1886. It is carried down to the present time. Mr. Gisborne points out with perfect truth that the history of New Zealand has been full of difficulties and complications, and that the problems which its statesmen have had to solve have been of a difficult character. Of the names which occur in the course of the work, the best known to English readers will be gdward Gibbon Wakefield, Bishop Selwyn, Sir George Grey, the "Maori King" (Tawhiao), Sir George Bowen, Sir Julius Vogel, Lord Rosmead (Sir Hercules Robinson), Lord Stanmore (Sir Arthur Gordon), Lord Onslow, and the Earl of Glasgow.