Rossetti....
Victor Daley has left his mark in the beginnings of an Australian
literature."
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_HOW HE DIED, AND OTHER POEMS._.
By JOHN FARRELL. Fourth edition. With memoir, appreciations, and
photogravure portrait. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco,
gilt edges, 6s. (_postage 2d._)
MELBOURNE AGE: "Farrells contributions to the literature of this
country were always distinguished by a fine, stirring optimism, a
genuine sympathy, and an idealistic sentiment, which in the book under
notice find their fullest expression."
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_THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER,
AND OTHER VERSES._
By A.B. Paterson. Fifty-eighth thousand. With photogravure portrait
and vignette title. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt
edges, 6s. (_postage 2d._)
ATHENAEUM: "Swinging, rattling ballads of ready humour, ready pathos,
and crowding adventure ... Stirring and entertaining ballads about
great rides, in which the lines gallop like the very hoofs of the
horses."
_London: Macmillan & Co., Limited._
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_RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE,
AND OTHER VERSES._
By A.B. Paterson. Seventeenth thousand. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.;
full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (_postage 2d._)
SPECTATOR: "There is no mistaking the vigour of Mr. Paterson's verse;
there is no difficulty in feeling the strong human interest which
moves in it."
_London: Macmillan & Co., Limited._
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_THE SECRET KEY, AND OTHER VERSES._
By George Essex Evans. Second edition, with portrait. Cloth gilt, gilt
top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (_postage 2d._)
GLASGOW HERALD: "There is ... the breath of that apparently immortal
spirit which has inspired ... almost all that is best in English
higher song."
THE BOOKMAN: "Mr. Evans has written many charming and musical poems
... many pretty and haunting lines."
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_IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE, AND OTHER VERSES._
By Henry Lawson. Twentieth thousand. With photogravure portrait.
Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (_postage
2d._)
THE ACADEMY: "These ballads (for such they mostly are) abound in
spirit and manhood, in the colour and smell of Australian soil. They
deserve the popularity which they have won in Australia, and which, we
trust, this edition will now give them
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