Riallaro. The Archipelago of Exiles

1901 [Brown, John Macmillan] (1846-1935). Riallaro. The Archipelago of Exiles. By Godfrey Sweven [pseud.]. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. 2^nd ed. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. Extract rpt. in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020), 31-53. The date of publication is often erroneously given as 1897 because the second ed. says, “This book is reprinted exactly as it appeared originally in 1897.” See New Zealand National Bibliography to the Year 1960. Ed. A.G. Bagnall. Wellington: A.R. Shearer, 1969 for 2^nd ed. for the 1901 dating. A[lexander] G[unn] Henderson says in “Macmillan Brown--As Author.” In John Macmillan Brown Lectures 1941 ([Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1941]), 25 that the book was in fact printed in 1897 but not actually published until 1901. ATL, L, M, NcD, PSt, VUW

Gulliveriana. The greatest amount of space is devoted to Aleofane (“gem of truth”) which has a complex language and code of conduct clearly designed to disguise the truth. Tirralaria is egalitarian, has no law or government, and has constant strife and poverty. A set of islands, collectively known as Loonarie, where people are sent who are dominated by one fixed idea includes Meddla, the Isle of Philanthropy or, more accurately, the Isles of Busybodies; Wotnekst or Godlaw, which has laws about everything; Foolgar, or the Land of Lofty Lineage; Awdyoo, or the Isle of Journalism; Jabberoo, composed of talkers; Vulpia, or diplomats, Witlingen, or jokers; Simiola, or copycats; Polaria, or contradictors; and many others. See also 1903 and 1920s Brown. The author was born in Scotland and educated at Glasgow and Oxford. He emigrated to Aotearoa/New Zealand in 1874 to be the first professor of Classics and English at Canterbury College in Christchurch.