REVIEWS THE SANDWICH ISLANDS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 455 



could dip into the future and see " the vision of the world," and the effects yet to 

 be ■wrought out by the various agencies within and around us, what would be 

 the spectacle presented by these Isles of our adoption. Should we see our vil- 

 lages, rising into towns of importance — our towns into large and wealthy cities — 

 our harbors filled with the ships of every nation — our native and foreign popula- 

 tion holding equal ground and pursuing together with equal success the paths of 

 happiness, virtue, wealth and intellectual culture — or, should we see the foreigner 

 usurping every position of advantage, and the poor native, his mind uninstructed, 

 his body diseased, his lauds sold to meet some temporary want, or to minister to- 

 petty vanity, and rapidly disappearing from the soil his fathers cultivated. 



We will not dwell now on these speculations, for while writing thus briefly our 

 few introductory words, the delicious Trade Wind is gently stirring our paper — 

 and while all without is glowing in the fervid noon of the Tropics — shade be- 

 comes a very paradise — and stretching far away to the horizon, heaves and 

 gently throbs the vast Pacific — the idle waves scarce breaking the usual long 

 white lines on the Coral Reefs — while the feathery leaves of the Cocoa Nut tree 

 are moving gently and gracefully over us. All round us are the Orange, Lime, 

 Pomegranate, Bread Fruit, Banana, Date and Tamarind Trees, with wealth of 

 gorgeous flowers at our feet, while with quiet and gentle steps the natives are 

 gliding stealthily or squatting low to pass round the pipe, and inhaling their two 

 or three whiffs of the fragrant weed." 



The contents of the Sandwich Islands' Magazine are of an amus- 

 ingly miscellaneous character. Interesting and instructive ethnological 

 and. geological papers lie alongside of such contributions as a *' Sonnet 



to Miss Emma R ," " Eulogy to Queen Pomare," the " Story of 



a Waltz," " Ode on the Marriage of Kamehameha IV.," &c. Then 

 again we have such practical sheets as " Custom-house Statistics for 

 1855," " Monthly Summary of Shipping Intelligence," and even a 

 column of " Business Cards," wherein our attention is invited, among 

 lists of Ship Chandlers, Commission Merchants, &c., to the " Honolulu 

 Daguerrean Gallery, King Street, opposite the Globe Hotel," or 

 again, to " the Daguerrean Artist located on Rose Lane, opposite the 

 Bethel, Honolulu." The reviewer next plays his part, and we peruse 

 a well written article under the heading : " Transactions of the Royal 

 Hawaiian Agricultural Society at its Fifth Annual Meeting, June, 

 1855. Vol. II. Honolulu: Printed for the Society;" or, under 

 such headings as " Report of the Minister of Finance," or the 

 " Differential Duties, and their working in Hawaii" we find ourselves 

 gliding into the troubled waters of Polynesian politics. The Minister 

 of the Interior thus recommends an appropriation " for the purchase or 

 building of a steamboat suitable for our trade, if the Hawaiian Steam 

 Navigation Company fail to fulfil the conditions of their charter " : — 



