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The Charter of the Land: custom and colonization in Fiji. Peter France. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1969. xiv, 229 pp. $6.75. New Zealand's Record in the Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Angus Ross. Auckland, Longman Paul, 1969. viii, 362 pp., endpaper map. $N.Z.6.00. Tangu Traditions: a study of the way of life, mythology, and developing experu ence of a New Guinea people. By kenelm burridge. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1969. xiii, 513 pp., figs, maps, tables, appendices and index. Price not stated. Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands. By gavan daws. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1968. xii, 494 pp., illus., two end maps. $9.95. The Search for the Islands of Solomon 1567–1838. By cōlin jack‐hinton. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969. xxii, 411 pp. $17.10. The Victorian Visitors: An account of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1861–1866, Including the Journal Letters of Sophia Cracroft, Extracts from the Journals of Lady Franklin, and Diaries and Letters of Queen Emma of Hawaii. By alfons l. korn. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1958. 352 pp. $U.S.6.75. Six Months in the Sandwich Islands. By Isabella l. bird. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press for Friends of the Library of Hawaii. Second printing, 1966. xxii, 278 pp. $U.S.7–50. The Journal of Prince Alexander Liholiho: The Voyages Made to the United States, England and France in 1849–1850. Edited by jacob adler. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press for the Hawaiian Historical Society, 1967. xxx, 155 pp. $U.S.8.00. Art and Artifacts of the 18th Century. By roland w. force and maryanne force. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1968. vii, 232 pp., bibliog. $U.S.12.50. Pacific Market‐places. A collection of essays. Edited by h. c. brookfield. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1969. xvii, 161 pp., 9 maps. $A7.50. The Imperial Frontier in the Tropics 1865–75. By w. david mcintyre. London, Macmillan, 1967. x, 421 pp. 63/‐. Mimoires pour servir à l'histoire de Mangareva: ère chrétienne, 1836–1871. By honore laval. Edited by c. w. newbury and p. o'reilly. Publication de la Société des Océanistes: No. 15, Paris, 1968. cxliii, 672 pp., illus., maps, bibliog. 150F. Archaeology in Western Samoa, Vol. I. Edited by r. c. green and janet m. Davidson. Auckland, Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum, No. 6, 1969. 278 pp. Omai: First Polynesian Ambassador to England. By thomas blake clark. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1969. [First published 1941, Colt Press, San Francisco.] 115 pp. $U.S.5.75.