Life of Sir George Grey: Governor, High commissioner, and Premier. An Historical Biography.

A Great Bibliography

A Great Bibliography.

Only the catalogue is accessible. By a piece of good fortune, on a par with the splendid gift, a German scholar had come to South Africa on a philological mission, or it may be, like a well-known New Zealand geologist, on a mission of his own, and was transformed into a philologist. With some aid from Grey, a virtuoso rather than a connoisseur in letters, Bleek compiled a catalogue of the collection that is a masterpiece of its kind. The arrangement is detailed and scientific; the description full and exact. The notes are invaluable, and they incorporate original information of importance. In the opinion of an authority the catalogue is "virtually a handbook of African, Australian, and Polynesian philology." How exhaustive it is will appear from the fact that it gives an account of 198 publications and manuscripts (the bulk of them Maori) in the Grey Library at Capetown.