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tainous, but, as the chain ends, they become mere bluffs rising out of the sea, or low coral islands built up on the ruins of sub- merged volcanoes. The early Hawaiians incorporated in their legends many theories to explain these stupendous phenomena of nature. Their mythology thus acquires a luxuriance and intensity arising from its environment. In contrast to this is the placidity and beauty which surrounds the tigure of Pele, the fire-goddess, and her little sister Hiiaka, born from an egg which Pele carried in her bosom. The tale recalls the myth of Demeter and Persephone, and it may be noted that pigs are thrown into the chasm of the crater at Kilauca, as, at the festival of the Thesmo- phoria, pigs were thrown into the sacred caverns or vaults of the goddesses. The collection ends with the tale of Kapiolani, which forms the subject of Tennyson's poem, " Kapiolani." The book is attractively produced, and the numerous pliotographs of volcanoes are useful as illustrations.

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