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Hot Springs
New Zealand's •greatest tour-
ist attraction, the Thermal Re-
gion of Lake Rotorua and its
surrounding district, is famous
for four -.reasons:its mountain
scenery, -its hot springs, its Maori
villiages, and Rangi.
We were eager to visit Rotorua
for all these reasons, but espe-
cially to renew acquaintance
with Rangi, the famous Maori
guide, who is as well known in
New Zealand as Ned Kelly is in
Australia,` but for a better rea-
son. She's a sparkling person-
rality .
Rangi showed us her treasures,
including her autograph book
signed by many celebrities, and
the splendid wood carvings done
!or her by her grand dad in his
old days.
Then she said, "I'll cook
lunch" Taking a dozen cobs of
sweet corn she put them into a
flax bag, and lowered the bag
with a string into a hot water
sock pool in her garden. She tied
the string to a peg, and left the
corn to simmer in the pool.
"There he blows!" said Rangi
suddenly, pointing to a plume of
steam in the distance, where
Pohutu Geyser was putting on
Isis act with a muffled rumble.
"Now come and see Whaka
village," suggested Rangi. She
led the way by a wooden foot-
bridge over a running stream,
where Maori boys were enter-
taining a group of tourists by
diving for pennies, thrown into
the water by tourists.
The boys were go-getters.
"Throw silver coins," they urged.
"We can't see the copper under
water!" •
"Now we'll see the Frog
Pond!" announced Rangi. We
followed her into the steamy
thermal area, and heard giant
frogs croaking in the mist.
Had again! The croaking sound
was only' the bubbling of steam
escaping, with a"'phut phut"
noise, from a devil's cauldron of
boiling mud. , . .
The mud boils up into domes,
then the frog croaks, the steam
e".r"-- escapes, and the mud subsides, to
form ephemeral patterns, lazily
wavering to form more bubble
and croak upthrusts of the vis-
cous crust of the mud.
"These ponds are so fascinat-
ing," remarked Rangi, "that
some people stand looking at
them for hours, and forget all
*bout their corn being cooked at
home.",,.
'Time for lunch!" announced
Rangi. We dodged among the
geysers, fumaroles, • mudholes,
and drifting clouds of steam
where Rangi fished the corn cobs
from the hot rock pool, done to
perfection.
The boiled corn -on -the -cob
___,ee..uaas succulent. Maize was not a
traditional Polynesian food. It
was introduced by the pakehas,
as "Indian corn" from America,
but is nowadays a hot favorite
among the Maoris.
When Rangi's ancestors ar-
rived in the Land of the Long
White -Cloud, they brought cut-
tings of Kumara (sweet pota-
toes) with them, which they
planted in gardens tilled with
wooden spades. They ate fish and
birds, berries, fern roots, and
shoots, and the pith of tree ferns.
— From "Roaming Round New
Zealand," by Frank Clune.
MERRY MENAGERIE
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Bookworm Became
Master Forger
Thomas J. Wise was a master
forger. But he never stood in
the dock of a criminal court.
Throughout a long life he
achieved international fame and
made a fortune aS the greatest
authority on rare books and
pamphlets of his time.
He belonged to learned socie-
ties, hobnobbed with great schol-
ars and American millionaires.
Oxford University conferred up-
on him the rare distinction of
an honorary degree of Master of
Arts, and the equally rare dis-
tinction of an honorary fellow-
ship of Worcester College,
Only when he had reached the
peak of his fame were the sys-
tematic frauds revealed which
toppled Thomas J. Wise off his
high pedestal.
How did his amazing career of
crime begin?
In 1888 a society was formed
in memory of the poet Shelley.
Its members included some of
the most celebrated literary men
of the day, and there was only
one who had no claim to dis-
tinction.
This exception was a chubby,
ruddy -faced man of twenty-five
Tom Wise, a city oil merchant's
clerk. Though obscure and in .
trade, young Wise showed a tre-
mendous interest in the Shelley
Society and very soon took a
leading part in the preparation
of famsimile copies of Shelley
pamphlets for members.
Such "copies" have a senti-
mental interest for the admirers
of a famous poet, but no com-
mercial value. And the fact that
they are only copies is stated on
them.
Toni Wise hit upon a billiant
scheme which side-stepped the
problems of imitating a rare
existing pamphlet, by manufac-
turing a new one with a faked
date.
Thus a forged pamphlet could
not be compared by the expert
with any original, since no or-
iginal existed. And there was
a very real financial advantage
if the swindle was worked clev-
erly.
Here is an example of how,
when he had become rich and
famous as the greatest authority
on rare books and the builder
of one of the finest private li-
braries in the world, Thomas
Wise, M.A., was carrying on se-
cret deals in faked nineteenth-
century pamphlets.
When the Invalid Elizabeth
Barrett was being ' courted by
Robert Browning before their
run -away marriage, she wrote a
series of beautiful love sonnets
to him. They were published
in 1850 and became a valuable
first edition.
But Wise had the love sonnets
printed in a pamphlet dated
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tion was thus destroyed and his
own pamphlet greatly increased
in value, No one, of course,
suspected the great Wise ' of
fraud!.
In the early and middle nine-
teenth century there was a gold-
mine for the forger who could
hoodwink the American collec-
tor. Wise, secure in his place
as a leading expert, and by now
a wealthy man, had easy pick-
ings to placate his greed for yet
more money.
So great was his authority
that no one ever questioned a
pamphlet or rare book if Wise
endorsed it as genuine. One
American banker, Mr. J. H.
Wrenn, invested in Wise's faked
pamphlets on a large scale,
thousands of pounds changing
hands.
Though the main bulk of
Wise's frauds were of faked
nineteenth - century pamphlets,
once, at least, he faked a com-
plete book.
In 1887 there appeared a new
edition of Shelley's poems edit-
ed by Charles Alfred Seymour,
member of the Philadelphia His-
torical Society. Thirty copies,
for private circulation only.
What could make a more di-
rect appeal to the rich Ameri-
can collector? The thirty copies
soon found purchasers at fancy
prices and went on to the book-
shelves of famous American li-
braries.
An additional bait for the rich
buyer was a number of love
sonnets written by Shelley for
his first wife, Harriet, and nev-
er intended to be seen by other
eyes.
Where did Thomas Wise come
in on this fraud? The answer
is simple. He took the name
Charles Alfred Seymour and in-
vented the Philadelphia Histori-
cal Society.
Another method used by Wise
was to buy at auction the letters
of the famous dead and from
them have printed fraudulent
pamphlets appropriately pre,
dated to deceive.
Strangely enough, Wise was a
fraud and genuine at the same
time.
For example, he really loved
rare and beautiful books. In his
home on Crouch Hill, North
London, he had built up a mag-
nificent library named after the
road in Which he lived, the Ash -
,ley Library.
He permitted no fakes to go
on to his own bookshelves, and
when he made a catalogue of
this great library it ran to ele-
ven volumes, beautifully illus-
trated and with notes on each
item reveling Wise's vast know-
Iedge of his subject.
And yet this was the man who
also trafficked for years in forg-
eries and fraudulent pamphlets!
Today, the Ashley Library is In
the British Museum. It was
bought from Wise's family for
$180,000.
Wise was unmasked, with po-
etic justice, by men in the trade
he had for so long swindled, two
clever antique booksellers.
For some time, here and there,
experts had begun to have their
supslcions of Wise. It seemed
that so often rare pamphlets
emanated from him. Then, again,
when questioned, he was invari-
ably, though plausible, peculi-
arly cagey.
These two astute men, John
Carter and Graham Pollard,
were no'doubt aware of one of
Wise's tricks, and a veru
one it was.
This was to get two booksel-
lers to bid for one of his own
faked pamphlets put up for auc-
tion. The two booksellers would,
be entirely unaware that they
were bidding for the same
client, and so the bidding would
go up to the limit set them by
Wise.
A worthless fraudulent pamph-
let would be old for $150 or
more. •
But, it may be said, Wise him-
self was forcing up the price of
his own trash and paying for it,
too! True, he was, but "Thii
particular item," he could truth-
fully say to his rich customer,
"fetched $150 'only last week at
auction."
In this way he would unload a
number of copies, each one, it
has been reckoned, seldom cost-
ing him more than fifty cents.
'Examined by paper experts
and chemists, and by experts 1p
typography, these so-called ranee
pamphlets were easily proved fo
be fraudulent.
In 1934, the two investigators
published their findings in a
book entitled, sombrely, "An In-
quiry Into the. Nature of Certain
Nineteenth Century Pamphlets."
They brought no direct accu-
sation against Wise. They could
not. Although everything point-
ed to him as the master -mind
behind these numerous "rare"
pamphlets, there was no direct I
proof,
And Wise? He said very little
and then pleaded sickness when
invited to go into details.
He died without admitting the
frauds, but by the day of his
death his guilt was no longer
in doubt.
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