THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: THEIR Progress and Condition under Missionary Labors, BY RUFUS ANDERSON, D. D., Foreign Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. This volume, by Dr. Anderson, prepared after the experience of a forty years' correspondence with the missionaries, and the information obtained by a recent sojourn of four months upon the Islands, during which time he was permitted to visit almost every portion of the country, mingling with the people in their public assemblies, their social and domestic circles, wit nessing their customs, habits, their civil and religious institutions, commercial enterprise, etc., is a work of no ordinary interest and importance. The first six chapters are occupied with an interesting historical sketch of the Islands, introductory to the main design of the volume; the next six describe a tour through the group; and the ten following furnish an account of the social, civil, religious and ecclesiastical condition of the people. An important chapter follows on the "Reformed Catholic Mission," as the English Episcopal Mission is called at the Islands; and while boldly ex posing its dangerous innovations and evil tendencies, it is yet kind and Christian in language and spirit. To the business man the Volume must be one of great interest, since these islands have become so important in the eye of nations in a commercial point of view, as also to the Christian in view of the wonderful success that has crowned the labors of missionaries sent forth to that once dark, degraded, but now enlightened and Christianized people. 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