A short collection of stories out of the Maoriland school of writing (between 1896 and 1915, according to the introduction). Roughly half are about European settlers, and the other half their interactions with Maori. Grace seems relatively sympathetic to the latter, but the stories are necessarily dated, and the characters often seem as if they've come from stock.

Interesting from a historical perspective, but otherwise the stories didn't do that much for me.