Chapter XIX

A short sketch of the missionary work in the South Seas—Concerning John Williams, James Chalmers, and others.

I can do no better than conclude this short sketch of the three most important groups of the South Sea islands by touching on the work and lives of those brave fellows the missionaries, who have left all the comforts of their English homes—their best friends and everything else that was dear to them—to teach the gospel of their Master and bring peace and happiness to these wild savages.

It is an easy thing to sneer at these “Gospel punchers” as they are so often called “out west.” But in spite of all the little things against them, one cannot help asking: Is it not through the work of the best of them that we are to-day able to go amongst these savages?

The most bigoted unbeliever if he thinks, and if he knows the sort of lives that many of these pioneers have led, must acknowledge their bravery, {194} even if he doubts their beneficial influence; but only the most ignorant could do that.

Mercenary reasons have always been assigned to account for the presence of the missionary in savage lands and all over the world, and particularly in New Zealand, one hears tales of the way the early missionaries piled up the gold. In Australia the same stories are told, but there was little in these savage South Sea islands to attract the seeker for gold at the time missionaries first began their work, for whatever they made would be at such a risk that it would not be worth their while.

In Australia and New Zealand, of course, there is a difference, in the latter place particularly, for there the Maoris were owners of large tracts of valuable land, and, undoubtedly, one or two of the lukewarm missionaries were tempted and fell.

One story I was told by an old Maori of a certain missionary is worth relating, as his acts rather upset the work of many honest men who were really trying to do good to these noble savages.

“Your clergyman be all right,” said the old man, when I mentioned missionary work. “He teach us about God, but He too greedy. He want all the Maori got.” {195}

“Nonsense,” I said; “who told you that yarn?”

A smile went round the little crowd as the old man glanced at his friends. “Mr. —— he told us to look to God and we looked, while we looked Mr. —— took our land. Then one day he come to us and he say, ‘God wants more land,’ and we gave him more land. Then some time soon he came again and he say, ‘God wants cattle to put on the land.’ And we give him cattle. Then he say, ‘God wants sheep.’ And we give him sheep. Then long time after he come again and he say, ‘God want money to keep the cattle and the sheep.’ But we had no money and so we had no more God.”

It is acts like these, committed by a few of the black sheep, that have made the bushmen, the cattlemen, and the traders sneer at the missionary, and in their ignorance they have condemned the whole for a part.

The trader and the kidnapper of the South Seas have for years fought tooth and nail against the missionaries, and it is they who have spread wild tales of the misconduct and strange practices of these noble men. They had an end in view, as they knew their worst foe was not the savage but the {196} missionary; it is the missionary who has been the means of stopping the ghastly trade in black men; it is the missionary again who has seen that the native was dealt with fairly; and these are the sins he has committed and can never be forgiven.

As early as 1796 the London Missionary Society, then the Missionary Society, undertook the work of sending men to these islands in the hope of winning their inhabitants to better lives. At that time the lives they were living were as bad, if not worse than those of savage beasts, and the publication of Captain Cook’s _Voyages_ in these islands aroused men of Christian feeling, and was the means of the Society sending out men to Tahiti; most of whom eventually died of sickness or were butchered by the natives.

For years these men and others worked their hardest against fearful odds, and for ten years they made little or no progress. Reports show that in 1813 one Tahitian had become a Christian. But this was the beginning, and during the next few years progress was as rapid as it had been slow before. Eventually the king of the island acknowledged the Christian belief, and set to work to destroy the heathen gods.

The adjacent islands were next approached, and {197} the Tahitian Missionary Society was formed with the avowed object of devoting all its energies to the conversion of the natives of these islands. Amongst its teachers the Society had a large body of natives, and it was not only assisted in this way but financially also by the very men who a few years before would have nothing to do with it.

Then came one of the greatest of the great men to these islands; John Williams, who was not only a splendid worker but a magnificent organiser. He soon had a boat fitted out in which he was able to visit the adjoining islands; finally confining his labours to New Guinea and the New Hebrides.

In 1823 Williams discovered Raratonga, an island in the Hervey group, and he seems to have devoted more of his time to the natives of this island than any other. It was his island, “dear Raratonga,” as he always called it. The population of it when he landed he estimated as about 7000, and in less than a dozen years he wrote of them in the following way:—

“I cannot forbear drawing a contrast between the state of the inhabitants when I first visited them, and now in 1834. In 1823 I found them all heathens, in 1834 they were all professing Christians. At the former period I found them with idols and {198} Maraes; these in 1834 were destroyed, and in their stead there were three spacious and substantial places of Christian worship, in which congregations amounting to 6000 persons assembled every Sabbath day. I found them without a written language, and left them reading in their own tongue the wonderful works of God.”

And again he said—

“In reference to the island generally, it may be observed that the blessings conveyed to them by Christianity have not been simply of a spiritual character, but that civilisation and commerce have invariably followed in her train.”

Succeeding this noble man in the islands were men of fine characters, the Revs. William Gill, E. W. Krause, and Messrs. Pitman and Buzacott, and then in 1867 came the man whose sterling good qualities will never be forgotten—James Chalmers, or “Tamate,” the name by which he was always known by the natives.

“Tamate” was bred and born in Scotland, and it was there he grew muscular and learned to love open-air life. Quite as a youth he became enthusiastic to devote his life to missionary work in savage lands; but subsequent events, and probably his companions, who were young men keen on {199} mischief and adventure, helped to make him forget his early aspirations. In fact, in that splendid biography of his written by Cuthbert Lennox, it is stated that young Chalmers’ religious ideas went through a period of uncertainty, and it was not until 1859, when he was eighteen years of age, that he had occasion to remember his early vow.

It was during a great religious revival, which was bringing in thousands of converts in Scotland, that Chalmers was persuaded to attend one of the meetings. This meeting he himself said that he and his friends had previously determined to do all in their power to upset. The result of it was that the true James Chalmers was roused, and from that hour he never wavered in his determination to teach the gospel to savages.

For years he worked steadily away at his studies, and in 1861 he was appointed to a position in the Glasgow City Mission. His good work brought him recognition, and finally he applied to the London Missionary Society for a position as missionary. The application was accepted, and Chalmers then went into training and was ordained as a missionary in 1865. He sailed almost immediately afterwards in the missionary boat _John Williams II._ for Raratonga island. {200}

Prior to leaving England James Chalmers married, and to his wife he gives the credit of half the successes of his life. The passage out to the South Seas was a terrible one, as the following extract shows:—

Whilst still in the English Channel the vessel encountered a terrific storm, memorable as being that in which the _London_ was lost. Three passengers were thrown out of their bunks, the pilot was knocked insensible, the compass binnacle was damaged, the whale-boat was carried away, and the seamen were constrained to ask the missionaries to pray for a change of wind. With difficulty the _John Williams II._ made the Portland Roads, and escaped the fate of some twenty-one vessels which foundered in the storm.

But this was only the beginning of the trials of that journey. Another storm met them in the Bay of Biscay, and a third one off the Cape of Good Hope, but they reached Adelaide eventually, and were there able to rest.

On the 21st of August the missionary ship which was to carry them to the islands left Sydney, and was in less than a fortnight high and dry on a reef, but she did not become a total wreck. She was taken back to Sydney for repair, leaving there again on the 15th of November, to become a total wreck on the 8th of January; her passengers were landed, minus all their belongings, on an almost unknown {201} and uninhabited island. The notorious _Bully Hayes_, however, rescued them from this spot and took them to Samoa. Eventually James Chalmers and his wife reached Raratonga safely after a voyage extending over seventeen months—the passage now takes about six weeks.

“Tamate’s” life in the South Seas was a life of sheer hard work, but he always felt, and properly so, that he was making headway. At the beginning of his career at Raratonga he set to work on the young men, as he thought in them lay the future hopes of the civilisation of the islands. When one knows the risks he ran in going back into the bush, where white men were so dreaded that they were often shot on sight, one cannot help feeling that a special providence was looking after him. He took no half measures and made few concessions, but went boldly to work at the start as he intended to go on to the end.

Many of the natives had been in the habit of fancying that the missionaries were weak men, but in “Tamate” they met one who was their equal in most things and could beat them at many.

As a sportsman and a man of pluck he immediately won their hearts, in fact every one who {202} came in contact with him speaks of him as a Man before all else.

One missionary said at the court in Sydney that, in his dealings with the natives, he remembered before all else that he was an Englishman, then a man, and lastly a missionary; but in “Tamate” every one recognised the Man.

From Raratonga Chalmers worked diligently amongst all the adjacent islands, and when later he had his yacht he was able to extend his operations and win many of the worst savages to better ways, and by joining in with the other missionaries some splendid work was accomplished. Throughout he saw the need of native teachers, and it was this branch of the work he set himself to push on, with the result that now there are native teachers and preachers in every island in the Pacific.

The chief trouble with which he and other missionaries had to contend was the climate; the unhealthy districts they had to visit often laid them up for weeks at a time. Finally Tamate’s wife, after a long and distracting illness, died and left him broken-hearted, for through all his difficulties she had been his mainstay. She died at sea on the 25th of October 1900. Her end was a very sad and disappointing one, as is shown by a letter Chalmers {203} wrote to one of his friends at the time. “We had dreamt of a little rest together in a cottage out of London somewhere, before we crossed the flood. We shall dream no more, she waits on the other side, as she said ‘I shall be waiting for you all.’”

It was not long she had to wait either, for on the 7th of April of the following year James Chalmers was massacred in the Aird River district, a part of the islands where he was not well known. The following account of the massacre was written by the Rev. A. E. Hunt, who accompanied His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony on a punitive expedition. “The _Niue_ (Chalmers’ yacht) anchored off Risk Point on the 7th of April, and a crowd of natives came off. As it was near sunset Tamate gave them some presents, and made signs that they were to go away and the next day he would visit them ashore. At daylight the next morning a great crowd of natives came off and crowded the vessel in every part. They refused to leave, and in order to induce them to do so Tamate gave Bob, the Captain, orders to give them presents. Still they refused, and then Tamate said he would go ashore with them, and he told Tomkins (his right-hand man) to remain on board. The latter declined and went ashore with Tamate, followed by {204} a large number of canoes. When they got ashore the whole party were massacred and their heads cut off. The boat was smashed up, and the clothing, etc., distributed. All the bodies were distributed and eaten.”

Chalmers evidently felt that his end was coming, though it cannot be supposed he knew how it would come. A few weeks before his death he wrote to a friend: “Time shortens, and I have much to do. How grand it would be to sit down in the midst of work and hear the Master say, ‘Your part is finished, Come.’”

Some time before Chalmers’ death Williams and many other missionaries were massacred; in fact it is in this way most of them have died, but their work will always remain as a memento. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, when bunching the good and bad missionaries together:

“With all their gross blots, with all their deficiency of candour, honour, and of common sense, the missionaries are the best and most useful whites in the Pacific.”

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INDEX

Administrator, an, 8

Adornments, trumpery, 172

Adventurers, 3, 15, 16

Agricultural pursuits, 23

Aird, river, 6

Ancestor warship, 153

Anchor, 66

Anchors, jamming of, 68

Ambryn, 147, 169

Americans, 12

Aoba, 78, 79, 81, 147, 180

Armlets, 42, 51

Arrowroot, 188

Arrows, the, 180

Attack, mode of, 99

Australasian Trading Company, 16

Australia, 11, 12
aboriginal of, 26

Australians, 7

Bamboo, 20

Bananas, 22, 24, 62, 187

Baskets, 176

Beck, Louis, 72

Betel-nut, chewing of, 111

Bibles, 14

“Blackbirding,” 190

Black labour, 10

Blackmailing, 50

Boat, the labour, 188
prow, 178

Bonita, call, 115
fishing, 113

Bougainville, de, 5, 9, 10, 11, 92, 133

Bow and arrow, 133

Bracelets, 157

Bread-fruit trees, 177

British Government, 7

British New Guinea, 6, 8, 26, 30
youth of, 38

British subjects, 12

Brown, Rev. Dr., 64

Buka, 10

Bundaberg, 188

Burial ceremony, 166

Burial ground of the traders, 79, 80

Burns Philp, Messrs, 16, 29, 72, 81, 186

Bush, men of the, 22, 32

Call by bonito, 115

Canoe, 17, 23, 27, 58
buying of, 27
houses, 89

Canoes, big, 178
building of, 26, 60, 176
small, 61

Cannibalism (Sol. Is.), 95

Capes, 49

Ceremonial purposes, 54

Ceremonies, sacred, 34

Ceremony, 38, 43

Chalmers, James, 65, 198, 199, 200
death of, 204

Chester, Mr., 7

Child, carrying of, 35, 36

Children, 32, 36
games of, 33

Cicatrices, 174
raised, 107

Civilisation, 16

Clark, George, 75, 77
death of, 78

Clay, 62
for pottery making, 62

Climate, 4

Climbing fish, 64

Clubs, 28

Cocoa-nut groves, 29
oil of the, 185
palms, 183

Cocoa-nuts, 62

Coffee, 187

“Coming out,” 38

Compounds, 188

Cook, Captain, 5, 11

Cooking, 34, 111
pots, 20

Copra, 183, 185, 187
boat, 186
trade, 185

Costumes, ceremonial, 30
humour of, 173
queer, 49

Crab, van der, 6

Crocodiles, 15, 122

Cures effected, 45

Custom, another, 42

Dance costumes, 49, 52
description of festival, 51
dook-dook, 50
the fish, 49
the funeral, 128
for love-making, 54
the war, 129

Dances, 30, 49
native, 49

Dancing, 31
art of, 38
ground, the, 51

Dancing, skirt, 52

Davis, Rear-Admiral, 99

Death of a husband, 46
visit of, 46

Demits, 156

Dook-dook dance, 50

Douglas, Hon. John, 7

Draughtsmen, 131

Drawings on wood, 132

Droughts, 4

Drum-making, 38

Drums, 39, 51, 158

Drying ground, 186

Dubu, 54
dance for women, 54
house, an old, 66

Dutch, 5, 6

Dynamite fishing, 63, 117

Eade, Dick, 74

Ear-rings, grotesque, 106

Earth oven, 23

Earthenware jars, 23

Education, 13

Efaté, 153, 154, 167, 172

Effigies, 156, 157

Elevera, 17, 21, 24, 26, 27

Emigration scheme, 12

Enemies, 28

England, 12

Equal rights, 8

Erskine, Commodore, 4

Euro, 88

Evanena, 33

Evil spirits, 46, 160
wishing, fear of, 138

Expedition, hunting, head, 28
of Postillion, 6
of Trinton, 6

Explorers, 3

Faces, decorating of, 175

Faith, 168

Fanarita, 101

Feast, 29

Festival dance, description of, 51

Festivals, 30

Fiddle played by mouth, 131

Fiji, 10, 32

Fijians, 25

Fire, 19
producing of, 132

Fish, 62
climbing, 64
dance, 49
spearing of, 63, 118

Fishing, 26, 180
by bonito, 113
with dynamite, 63, 117
by kite, 116
by moonlight, 116
by nets, 62
by spears, 118
for turtles, 181

Florida Island, 102

Flowers, 104

Food, 23, 108
eating of certain, 40

France, 11, 12

“French Jack,” 11, 93
residents, 143

Fresh water, objection to, 151

Frigate bird, 57, 107

Funeral rites, 126

Funerals, 30

Furniture, 18

Games, 34
rough boyish, 34

Germans, 5

Germany, 10

Gill, Rev. William, 198

Girl’s love-letter, 43

Girls, 34

Glasgow City Mission, 199

Gorging, 91

Government House, 17
officials, 17

Granville, 16

Graveyard, 127

Great Britain, 10, 11

Great southern continent, 10

Guadalcana, 9, 92, 101

Guppy, Dr. H. B., 101, 138

Habitations, 20

Haddon, Professor, 41, 43

Hair, 25, 31, 174
arrangement of, 31
bleached, 107
bushy, 38
sale of, 32

Hanuabada, 17, 24, 26

Harbour, 16

Hardy, Mr., 27, 64, 73, 108, 109, 167

Hayes, Bully, 201

Head-hunter, notorious, 98
hunters, 16
hunting, 37, 97, 102
hunting, big expedition, 28

Heads, shaving of, 25
wanted, 102

Hebrides, 144

Heirlooms, 19

H.M.S. _Fly_, 6

H.M.S. _Rattlesnake_, 6

Honolulu, 32

“Hope,” 89, 134
altars, 136

Houses, construction of (Sol. Is.), 86
interiors of the, 149

Human beings, cooking of, 111

Hunting, 22

Hunting pigs, 120

Husband, death of, 46

Huts, 17, 20
building of, 176
interiors of, 87
of skulls, 168

Hutten, Old Harry, 74

Ibitoe, 38, 39, 166

Idols, 157

Immigrants, 9

Industry, the chief, 145

Infanticide, 102

Ingova of Rubiana Lagoon, New Georgia, 90, 98

Ingova, head-hunters of, 98

Ingova’s Euro, 98
house at Rubiana, 89

Isabel, 9, 101

Islas de Salomon, 9

Ivivu, 130

Jammed, 66

Jew’s harp, 130, 131

Kai-kai dish, 110

Kidnapped, 10, 29

Kite fishing, 116

Kolff, Lieutenant, 5

Krause, Rev. E. W., 198

Labour, 29
boat, the, 188
organised, 29
trade in New Guinea, 189

Ladder, 18

Lakatois, 59, 61
construction of, 60

Laws of marriage, 166

Leap-frog, 33

Legends, 137, 176

Leglets, 42

Le Hunte, George Ruthven, Esq., 8

Lion’s head, the, 92

Loafers, 29

Loafing, 31

Loin-cloth of tappa, 174

London Missionary Society, 196, 199

Love, 40, 41

Love charms, 44

Love-making, 37

Lovesick swain, 41

Lying, art of, 28

Macdonald, Mr., 153

Macgregor, Governor, 7, 189

M‘Ilwraith, Sir Thomas, 7

Mackay, 188

Mai, 100, 101

Malayan trepang, 118

Malays, 5

Malekula, 145, 147, 150, 154, 167, 169, 173, 176, 177, 179, 180, 184

Mambare river massacre, the, 75

Mangoes, 65, 66

Man and wife, 43

Maori method of carrying, 36

Maoris of New Zealand, 25, 44, 45, 194

Marriage, 34, 40
laws, 166
preparation for, 31
proposal of, 37

Masks, 49
construction of, 50
hideous design of, 49

Massacred, 204

Massacres, 14, 102

Mats, 18, 150, 175

Medicine men, 139

Meeting, arrangements for the, 42

Mekko district, 49

Men, burying alive of, 145

Meyer, Don Alvaro Mendana de, 9, 11

Mendana de, Islands, 9

Meyers, Dr., 6

Mineral, 3

Mission of the City of Glasgow, 199

Mission House, 17

Missionaries, 3, 7, 14, 65, 193
tales of, 194

Missionary Society of London, 196, 199

Missionary Society of Tahiti, 197

Moonlight fishing, 116

Moresby, Captain, 6

Mother, 35

Motus, 22, 23

Mourners, the chief, 128

Mourning, 30, 46
special dress, 46
universal, 126

Mouth fiddle, 131

Music, ears for, 130

Narak-burners, 164, 165
stones, 164

Native babies, 35
costume, 30
dances, 48
diet, 111
eyesight, 119
inquisitiveness, 26
instrument, 130
police, 8
police clothes and duties, 30
villages, 86

Natives, 15, 21, 23, 168
of New Guinea, 25
swimming, 67

Naturalisation papers, 12

Necklaces, 52

Nets, 117
hand, 117
fishing, 62

New Britain, 13

New Georgia, 95, 107

New Guinea, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 36, 37, 47, 49, 56, 176, 184
divorce, laws of, 43
labour, trade in, 189
natives of, 25, 26, 44

New Hebrides, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 78, 79, 143, 185
settlement in, 143

New Zealand, Maoris of, 25

Nicolas the Greek, 73

Nose-rings, 106

Oil of the cocoa-nut, 185

Opossum, 121

Ornaments, 104

Outrages, 14

Outriggers, 58, 177

Over-gorging, 161

Paint, 175

Palavanua, 88

Pandean pipe, 130

Papuan, 35, 36, 37, 39
boy, coming of age, 38
dandy, 32

Paradise, veritable, 144

Pentecost Island, 179

Petty Sessions Courts, 8

Pig-a-back, 33
ceremonies, 162
hunting of, 120
sacrifices of, 155

Pile dwellings, 86

Pioneer settler, 144

Pitman and Buzacott, Messrs., 198

Planters, 10

Platform, 18, 21

Police, the, 21, 30
magistrate, 8

Port Moresby, 7, 16, 17, 22, 24, 26, 29, 61, 75
Resolution, 148
Vila, 143

Postillion expedition, 6

Pottery, 24, 61, 176
industry, the, 61
making, 26, 34

Pratt, Johnnie, 74

Preferential tariff, 12

Queensland, 7, 188
coast, 188
Government, 4, 78
sugar refining, 188

Quiros, de, 9, 10, 11

Rain-maker, the, 168
making, remarkable, 170

Rano Island, 177, 179

Raratonga, 197, 201

Religion, 124, 155

Resident magistrate, 8

Residents, French, 143

Rubiana, in, 97, 107

Sacedra, Alvaro de, 5

Sacred ideas, 182
stone, 161

Sacrifice, 29

Sacrifices of pig, 155

Sago, 61, 62

St. Christoval, 101

Sale, 32

Samari, 184

Samoa, 10, 32

San Christoval, 9

Santa Anna, 100
Catalina, 91
Cruz, 9

Sanitary arrangements, 151

Sapuna, 100

Savage song, 159
lands, magic in, 44

Savages, 13

Scratchley, Sir Peter, 7

Sea, men of the, 22

Secret rites, 28

Shaving, 107

Shed, 186

Shell-money, 164
necklaces, 105

Shields, 133

Shooting fish, 64

Silent philosophy, 36

Simbo, 127

“Sing-sing” 167
grounds, 157, 158

Skull-huts, 168

Skulls, string of, 37

Slave-dealers, 191

Solomons or New Guinea, 185

Solomon Islands, the, 9, 10, 13, 84, 86, 91, 94, 145
islanders, clothing of, 104
King, 9

Somerville, Lieut. Boyle T., R.N., 129, 167

Song, a savage, 159

Sorcerer, the, 44

South Pacific, 10
Sea Islands, 3, 13, 14
Seas, excitement of, 75
trader, 71

Spaniards, the, 11

Spanish explorers, 10

Spearing fish, 63, 118

Spears, 28
and clubs, 133

Sports, 120

Staple foods, 62

State councils, 8

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 204

Stories, amusing, 78

Streamers, 174

Street, 17

String armlet, 41

Superstition, 22, 39, 44, 45, 88, 115, 137, 163, 170

Superstitions, 14, 15, 23, 40

Surprise attack, 28, 29

Sweet potatoes, 62

Swimmers and divers, born, 32

Swimming natives, 67

Taboo, 88

Tahitian Missionary Society, 197

Taki, 106

“Tamate,” 198, 201

Tambu houses, 90, 91, 92, 152

Tanna Island, 83, 147, 148, 172, 184

Tappa loin-cloth, 174

Taros, 22, 187

“Tartan Jock,” 79, 81

Tattooing, 32, 56, 107, 174

Thatch, 20

Tierra Australis del Espiritu Santo, 11

Tight-lacing, 41

Tohunga, 44

Tohunganism, 45

Tools, the, 176

Torres, Luis Vaez de, 5, 10, 11
Straits, 5, 11

Trade beads, 172

Traders, 14, 15, 28, 186
burial-ground, 79, 80
experiences of, 81
of the South Sea, 71
risks of, 72
small, tales of the, 73

Tredacua shells, the, 105

Tree-houses, 21

Tribal wars, 22

Trinton expedition, 6

Trumpery adornments, 172

Tupusuli, 64, 65, 66

Turtle fishing, 181

Twine skirts, 54

Urio Moquru, 45, 46

Vegetable, 3

Verandahs, 21, 22

Veritable paradise, 144

Villages, 149

Volcano, 148

Wallaby, 23

War, weapons of, 132, 179

Western islands, 41

Wild animals, 17

Wild diet, 180

Willey, Dr., 109

Williams, John, 197, 204

Witchcraft, 163

Wives, plurality of, 43

Women, 29, 31
folk, 28
and girls, costumes of, 31
labour of the, 34
married, work of the, 35
workers, 175
young, 25

Worship, places of, 157

Wyllie, Dr., 64

Yacht, saving of, 67

Yams, 22, 24, 62, 187
the chief’s, 187

Yost, Prof. von, 64

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FROM DAMASCUS TO PALMYRA
By JOHN KELMAN, M.A., D.D.
Painted by MARGARET THOMAS
70 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

KATE GREENAWAY
By M. H. SPIELMANN, F.S.A., and G. S. LAYARD
75 FULL-page illustrations (51 IN COLOUR) AND NUMEROUS
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

AUSTRALIA
Painted by PERCY F. S. SPENCE
Described by FRANK FOX
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

EGYPT
Painted and Described by R. TALBOT KELLY, R.B.A.
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

HAMPSHIRE
Painted by WILFRID BALL, R.E.
Described by REV. TELFORD VARLEY
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

BELGIUM
Painted by A. FORESTIER
Described by G. W. T. OMOND
77 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

EGYPTIAN BIRDS
Painted and Described by
CHARLES WHYMPER, F.Z.S., B.O.U.
51 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

HOLLAND
By NICO JUNGMAN
Text by BEATRIX JUNGMAN
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

BIRDS OF BRITAIN
By J. LEWIS BONHOTE, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S.
100 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR Selected by
H. E. DRESSER

HAPPY ENGLAND
By HELEN ALLINGHAM, R.W.S.
Text by MARCUS B. HUISH
80 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE HOLY LAND
Painted by JOHN FULLEYLOVE, R.I.
Described by REV. JOHN KELMAN, M.A.
93 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

BIRKET FOSTER
By H. M. CUNDALL, I.S.O., F.S.A.
100 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS (OVER 70 IN COLOUR) AND MANY SKETCHES
IN THE TEXT

THE RIVERS AND STREAMS OF ENGLAND
Painted by SUTTON PALMER
Described by A. G. BRADLEY
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

HUNGARY
Painted by Mr. and Mrs. ADRIAN STOKES
Described by ADRIAN STOKES
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

BRITTANY
By MORTIMER MENPES, R.I., R.E.
Text by DOROTHY MENPES
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

ENGLISH COSTUME
By DION CLAYTON CALTHROP
73 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND NUMEROUS SKETCHES IN
THE TEXT

INDIA
By MORTIMER MENPES, R.I.
Text by FLORA A. STEEL
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

BURMA
Painted and Described by R. TALBOT KELLY, R.B.A.
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE ENGLISH LAKES
Painted by A. HEATON COOPER
Described by WILLIAM T. PALMER
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

IRELAND
Painted by FRANCIS S. WALKER, R.H.A.
Described by FRANK MATHEW
77 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

CAMBRIDGE
By M. A. R. TUKER
Painted by WILLIAM MATTHISON
77 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

ESSEX
Painted by BURLEIGH BRUHL, R.B.A.
Described by A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE ITALIAN LAKES
Painted by ELLA DU CANE
Described by RICHARD BAGOT
69 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

CANADA
Painted by T. MOWER MARTIN, R.C.A.
Described by WILFRED CAMPBELL
76 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

FLORENCE AND SOME TUSCAN CITIES
Painted by COLONEL R. C. GOFF
Described by MRS. GOFF
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

JAPAN
By MORTIMER MENPES, R.I., R.E.
Transcribed by DOROTHY MENPES
100 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
Painted by HENRY B. WIMBUSH
Described by EDITH F. CAREY
76 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE FLOWERS AND GARDENS OF JAPAN
Painted by ELLA DU CANE
Described by FLORENCE DU CANE
50 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

KASHMIR
Described by SIR FRANCIS EDWARD YOUNGHUSBAND, K.C.I.E.
Painted by MAJOR E. MOLYNEUX, D.S.O.
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

KENT
By W. TEIGNMOUTH SHORE
Painted by W. BISCOMBE GARDNER
73 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

NEW ZEALAND
Painted by the Brothers F. and W. WRIGHT
Described by THE HON. W. P. REEVES Lately High
Commissioner for New Zealand
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

SOUTHERN SPAIN
Painted by TREVOR HADDON, R.B.A.
Described by A. F. CALVERT
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

FAMILIAR LONDON
Painted by ROSE BARTON, A.R.W.S.
61 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

OXFORD
Painted by JOHN FULLEYLOVE, R.I.
Described by EDWARD THOMAS
60 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

SURREY
Painted by SUTTON PALMER
Described by A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

LONDON TO THE NORE
Painted and Described by W. L. WYLLIE, A.R.A., and
MARIAN AMY WYLLIE
60 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

JOHN PETTIE
By MARTIN HARDIE, B.A., A.R.E.
50 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND 8 IN BLACK AND WHITE

SUSSEX
Painted by WILFRID BALL, R.E.
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

LONDON VANISHED AND VANISHING
Painted and Described by PHILIP NORMAN, F.S.A.
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE RIVIERA
Painted and Described by WILLIAM SCOTT
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE THAMES
By MORTIMER MENPES, R.I., R.E.
Text by G. E. MITTON
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE SCENERY OF LONDON
Painted by HERBERT M. MARSHALL, R.W.S.
Described by G. E. MITTON
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

ROME
Painted by ALBERTO PISA
Text by M. A. R. TUKER and HOPE MALLERSON
70 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

VENICE
By MORTIMER MENPES, R.I., R.E.
Text by DOROTHY MENPES
100 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

GEORGE MORLAND
By SIR WALTER GILBEY, Bt.
50 FULL-PAGE REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR OF THE ARTIST’S BEST WORK

BONNIE SCOTLAND
Painted by SUTTON PALMER
Described by A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

WAR IMPRESSIONS
By MORTIMER MENPES, R.I., R.E.
Transcribed by DOROTHY MENPES
99 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

NAPLES
By AUGUSTINE FITZGERALD
Described by SYBIL FITZGERALD
80 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE SAVAGE SOUTH SEAS
Painted by NORMAN H. HARDY
Described by E. WAY ELKINGTON, F.R.G.S.
68 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

WARWICKSHIRE
Painted by FRED. WHITEHEAD, R.B.A.
Described by CLIVE HOLLAND
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

WESSEX
Painted by WALTER TYNDALE
Described by CLIVE HOLLAND
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE ROYAL NAVY
Painted by NORMAN WILKINSON
Described by H. LAWRENCE SWINBURNE
61 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

NORTHERN SPAIN
Painted and Described by EDGAR T. A. WIGRAM
75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

YORKSHIRE
Painted and Described by GORDON HOME
71 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE 10S. NET SERIES
ALL WITH FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
POST FREE, 10S. 6D.
SIZE 9 × 6 ¼ INS.

THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND
Painted by WILLIAM SMITH, Jun.
Described by A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF
40 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

NORMANDY
By NICO JUNGMAN
Text by G. E. MITTON
40 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

BRUGES AND WEST FLANDERS
Painted by A. FORESTIER
Described by G. W. T. OMOND
37 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE LIGHT SIDE OF EGYPT
Painted and Described by LANCE THACKERAY
36 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR, CLOTH (ALBUM SHAPE) SIZE 10 ½ × 8 INS.

THE 7S. 6D. NET SERIES
ALL WITH FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
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*SIZE 10 ¼ × 7 ½ INS. SIZE 9 × 6 ¼ INS.

ABBOTSFORD
Painted by WILLIAM SMITH, Jun.
Described by REV. W. S. CROCKETT
20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

GENEVA
Painted by J. HARDWICKE LEWIS and MISS MAY HARWICKE
LEWIS
Described by FRANCIS GRIBBLE
20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

NUREMBERG
Painted by ARTHUR GEORGE BELL
Described by MRS. A. G. BELL
20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

ADVENTURES AMONG PICTURES
By C. LEWIS HIND
24 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS (8 IN COLOUR AND 16 IN BLACK AND WHITE)

HAUNTS OF ANCIENT PEACE
By ALFRED AUSTIN (_Poet Laureate_)
Painted by AGNES LOCKE
20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM*
Translated by EDWARD FITZGERALD
Painted by GILBERT JAMES
Edited, with notes, by REYNOLD ALLEYNE NICHOLSON, M.A.
16 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE BEAUTIFUL BIRTHDAY BOOK
By GERTRUDE DEMAIN HAMMOND, R.I.
12 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR DECORATIVE BORDERS BY
A. A. TURBAYNE

THE HEART OF SCOTLAND*
Painted by SUTTON PALMER
Described by A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF
24 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

ST. PETERSBURG
Painted by F. DE HAENEN
Described by S. DOBSON
32 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS (16 IN COLOUR)

BRABANT & EAST FLANDERS
Painted by A. FORESTIER
Text by G. W. T. OMOND
20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

INNS OF COURT
Painted by GORDON HOME
Described by CECIL HEADLAM
20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

SCOTTISH LIFE AND CHARACTER
Painted by H. J. DOBSON, R.S.W., A.R.C.A.
Described by WILLIAM SANDERSON
20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

WILLIAM CALLOW
By H. M. CUNDALL, I.S.O., F.S.A.
22 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
IN THE TEXT

ISLE OF MAN
Painted by A. HEATON COOPER
Described by W. RALPH HALL CRANE
20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

CANTERBURY
By W. TEIGNMOUTH SHORE
Painted by W. BISCOMBE GARDNER
20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

ISLE OF WIGHT
Painted by A. HEATON COOPER
Described by A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF
24 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

COUNTRY SKETCHES FOR CITY DWELLERS
By Mrs. WILLINGHAM RAWNSLEY
16 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

LAMIA’S WINTER QUARTERS
By ALFRED AUSTIN (_Poet Laureate_)
Painted by GEORGE S. ELGOOD, R.I.
16 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND 13 HEAD AND TAIL PIECES
BY WILLIAM SCOTT

OUR LIFE IN THE SWISS HIGHLANDS
By JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS and his daughter MARGARET
Painted by J. HARDWICKE LEWIS
With a Preface by MRS. VAUGHAN (MARGARET SYMONDS)
22 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS (20 IN COLOUR)

DUTCH BULBS AND GARDENS
Painted by MIMA NIXON
Described by UNA SILBERRAD and SOPHIE LYALL
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

LAUSANNE
Painted by J. HARDWICKE LEWIS and MISS MAY HARDWICKE LEWIS
Described by FRANCIS H. GRIBBLE
24 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

THE HOMES OF TENNYSON
Painted by HELEN ALLINGHAM, R.W.S.
Described by ARTHUR H. PATERSON.
20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

EDINBURGH
Painted by JOHN FULLEYLOVE, R.I.
Described by ROSALINE MASSON
21 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

LETTERS FROM THE HOLY LAND
By LADY BUTLER
Painter of “The Roll Call”
16 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY LADY BUTLER

DAYS WITH VELASQUEZ
By C. LEWIS HIND
24 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS (8 IN COLOUR AND 16 IN BLACK AND WHITE)

ENGLISH COSTUME
Painted and Described by
DION CLAYTON CALTHROP
In Four Sections, each containing 18 to 20 full-page Illustrations
in Colour, and many Illustrations in the text: