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Book Review: La Serpiente Y La Paloma

We commend this publisher for giving us a paperback reprint of Isabella Bird's Six Months in the Sandwich Islands. All of her travel writing is worth rereading. Here is a cross-section of Hawaiian life of a century ago, attractively put together in the form of personal letters by a typical British woman of the Victorian Age. That, in itself, makes the book interesting as a cross-cultural study colorful Hawaii through a filter of Victorian values, by a writer who firmly believed in the rightness of Christian mission. This is not a book about missions but about Hawaiian life, but to be that, there had to be many glimpses of missionary work schools in session, evening prayers, fragments of mission history, the national ministry and problems of missionary work. And among the interesting missionary personalities the reader meets are Coan, Lyons, Lyman, Davies, Sisters Mary Clara, Pheobe and Fr. Damien. There are also a number of descriptive units of abiding historical value. For $3.95, at today's prices, this is good value and pleasant light reading.