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Press Notices (continued). deep appreciation of native hopes and native aspirations has been able to familiarize himself with their inner life. Price, buckram, i2mo., $1.50; also in kapa. Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co., Boston, Mass. -Overland Monthly, San Francisco, Cat., Oct. i, 1915.

"Legends of Old Honolulu" is an interesting summary of what is known about the Hawaiian Islands, their people, and the origin of their race.

As soon as the Hawaiian alphabet was prepared, in 1821, native writers began delving into their past, finding there a treasure-mine of romantic stories and of valuable ethnological and historical facts in regard to the Polynesian race. These stories were written originally in Hawaiian, for native news- papers, and have been collected and translated by Mr. W. D. Westervelt, author of previous volumes on this same subject. While the book will be of special interest to students of ethnology and to those who have visited Honolulu, the romantic charm which pervades this Pacific archipelago gives its history a universal attraction for the reading public. The volume is well bound and well illustrated. Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co. -Globe, Boston, Oct. 25, 1915.