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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
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Sir Robert Stout recently said to a newspaper reporter: « I believe that the desponding tone of the newspaper press of New Zealand has prevented, not thousands, but millions of money from being invested in New Zealand. » The Tuapeka Times says this is the highest compliment he could have bestowed on the press, and adds: « It speaks well for journalism in this colony that it has not tried to bring about inflated prosperity by portraying things except in their true light. We trust the New Zealand press will ever pursue the same course. »
Details regarding the death of the late Rev E. P. Roe are to hand. On the night of the 18th July he finished the concluding chapter of his new book, Miss Lou, and spent the following day among his beloved flowers and shrubs at his home at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson. In the evening, while reading to his family from Hawthorne, he clasped his hands over his heart, exclaiming, « Oh! that pain again. I shall have to stop. » He retired to his room, and his physician was sent for, but proved of no avail, and after an hour of intense pain, he passed away. The cause of death was neuralgia of the heart, of which he had previously suffered an attack while visiting Charleston, South Carolina, soon after the earthquake. He was fifty years of age, having been born 7th March, 1838, at Windsor, New York. He leaves a widow and five children.
The Saturday Review contains an appreciative notice of the late Mr P. H. Gosse. His work, it says « was distinguished by exactness of detail and an earnest endeavor to state in the simplest language the conclusions at which he had arrived. One result of his researches was the addition to the British fauna of 34 hitherto undescribed species of actinologia. No sketch of his work would be complete without a reference to the illustrations with which he copiously illustrated his zoological volumes. In every instance, and even to the last, these were the work of his own hand. The colored plates in his early books, particularly those in The Birds of Jamaica and The Aquarium, were singularly brilliant, and gave a lasting value to these volumes. The published illustration, however, was usually but a poor imitation of the brilliant original. Mr Gosse had been trained to paint under his father, a skilful and successful miniature painter at the end of the last century, and his zoological illustrations were finished like miniatures. » The list of Mr Gosse's works includes forty volumes. Some of his works were on religious subjects, and his life affords a striking proof that the close and loving pursuit of natural science does not necessarily involve that painful « atrophy » of the artistic and religious faculties with which many modern scientific men have been afflicted.