THE POETICAL WORKS OF BRUNTON STEPHENS. New edition. With photogravure portrait. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 5s. net (post free 58. 5d.) THE TIMES: "This collection of the works of the Queensland poet, who has for a generation deservedly held a high place in Australian literature, well deserves study." DAILY NEWS: "In turning over the pages of this volume, one is struck by his breadth, his versatility, his compass, as evidenced in theme, sentiment, and style."' THE ATHENÆUM : "Brunton Stephens, well known to all those who are curious in Australian literature, as being, on the whole, the best of Australian poets." ST. JAMES' GAZETTE: "This substantial volume of verse contains a great deal that is very fresh and pleasing, whether grave or gay.' MANCHESTER GUARDIAN: "He shows a capacity for forceful and rhetorical verse, which makes a fit vehicle for Imperial themes.'' THE SECRET KEY, AND OTHER VERSES By GEORGE ESSEX EVANS. With portrait. Crown 8vo., cloth gilt, gilt top ("Snowy River" Series), 5s. net (post free 5s. 5d.) GLASGOW HERALD: "There is the breath of that apparently immortal spirit which has inspired all that is best in English higher song.' SPECTATOR: 66 . . almost Mr. Evans has a rarer talent, for be has the flute as well as the big drum." THE BOOKMAN: "Mr. Evans has written many charming and musical poems, many pretty and haunting lines." SCOTSMAN: "The book is interesting in no common degree as applying the old traditions of English verse with happy artistry to the newer themes that nourish poetry in the NeverNever Land." BRITISH AUSTRALASIAN: "Because Mr. Evans has not given us bush ballads, it must not be supposed that he has failed to catch the true Australian spirit. He feels the spaciousness and sunlit strength of Australia, and he has put them into his verses."' London: The Australian Book Co., 21 Warwick Lane, E.C. THE INFERNO OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. Literally translated into English verse in the NOTES AND QUERIES: "The version before us gives a better idea of the original than many more ambitious efforts; it will bear comparison both with the original text and with Longfellow's, on which it improves occasionally in the matter of diction. The correctness of the work is a matter for congratulation, for some of the latest translators have made mistakes in rendering the Italian as well as introducing needlessly fanciful paraphrases. We hope Sir Samuel Griffith may find time to add the Purgatorio and Paradiso to this volume. Since Bowen's work on Virgil we remember no worthy manifestation of the literary judge, who seems, alas! to be as rare nowadays as the literary bishop." SONGS OF A SUNLIT LAND. By COLONEL KENNETH MACKAY, C.B. With portrait. Crown 8vo., cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. net (post free 38. 10d.) SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: "A volume of short poems that deserves a place on every shelf devoted to Australian literature. Colonel Mackay's verse is throughout of the healthy, vigorous sort that is always welcome." DAILY TELEGRAPH: "A little volume of manly ringing verse, rich in virile and stirring lines." THE OLD BUSH SONGS. Collected and edited by A. B. PATERSON, author of the "Man from Snowy River," "Rio Grande's Last Race," &c. Sixth thousand. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. net (post free 28. 9.) DAILY TELEGRAPH: "Rude and rugged these old bush songs are, but they carry in their vigorous lines the very impress of their origin and of their genuineness. Mr. Paterson has done his work like an artist.'' London: The Australian Book Co., 21 Warwick Lane, E. C. WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE, By HENRY LAWSON. Fourteenth thousand. With 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 in England." THE SPEAKER: "There are poems in 'In the Days When the World was Wide' which are of a higher mood that any yet beard in distinctively Australian poetry.' LITERARY WORLD: "Not a few of the pieces have made us feel discontented with our sober surroundings, and desirous of seeing new birds, new landscapes, new stars; for at times the blood tingles because of Mr. Lawson's galloping rhymes."'` NEWCASTLE verse. WEEKLY CHRONICLE: "Swinging, rhythmic WHEN I WAS KING, AND OTHER VERSES. By HENRY LAWSON. Sixth thousand. Crown 8vo., cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. net (post free 4s.) SPECTATOR (London): “A good deal of humour, a great deal of spirit, and a robust philosophy are the main characteristics of these Australian poets. Because they write of a world they know, and of feelings they have themselves shared in, they are far nearer the heart of poetry than the most accomplished devotees of a literary tradition.'' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: "He is known wherever the English language is spoken; he is the very god of the idolatry of Australian bushmen; he has written more and is . better known than any other Australian of his age. There is a musical lilt about his verses which makes these dwell in the memory, and there is in them also a revelation of truth and strength. `. 'When I was King' contains work of which many a craftsman in words might well be proud lines that Walt Whitman—a master of rhythm when he liked, and a worshipper of it always-would have been proud to claim as his own." London: The Australian Book Co., 21 Warwick Lane, E. C. VERSES, POPULAR AND HUMOROUS. By HENRY LAWSON. Fifteenth thousand. Crown 8vo., cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. net (post free 48.) Francis Thompson, in THE DAILY CHRONICLE: "He is a writer of strong and ringing ballad verse, who gets his blows straight in, and at his best makes them all tell. He can vignette the life he knows in a few touches, and in this book shows an increased power of selection.' NEW YORK EVENING JOURNAL: "Such pride as a man feels when he has true greatness as his guest, this newspaper feels in introducing to a million readers a man of ability hitherto unknown to them. Henry Lawson is his name. ACADEMY: "Mr. Lawson's work should be well known to our readers, for we have urged them often enough to make acquaintance with it. He has the gift of movement, and he rarely offers a loose rhyme. Technically, short of anxious lapidary work, these verses are excellent. He varies sentiment and humour very agreeably.'' THE BOOK LOVER: "Any book of Lawson's should be bought and treasured by all who care for the real beginnings of Australian literature. As a matter of fact, he is the cne Australian literary product, in any distinctive sense."' CHILDREN OF THE BUSH. By HENRY LAWSON. Sixth thousand. Crown 8vo., cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. net (post free 4s.) DAILY TELEGRAPH: "These stories are for the most part episodes which appear to have been taken direct from life and Mr. Lawson contrives to make them wonderfully vivid. Mr. Lawson's new stories are as good as his old ones, and higher praise they could not get." THE BULLETIN: "These stories are the real Australia, written by the foremost living Australian author. Lawson's genius remains as vivid and human as when he first boiled his literary billy." NEW ZEALAND TIMES: "His latest work, so far from exhibiting any signs of failing talent, seems to us to rank amongst the best he has yet done.” London: The Australian Book Co., 21 Warwick Lane, E. C. WHILE THE BILLY BOILS. By HENRY LAWSON. With eight illustrations by Crown 8vo., cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. net (post free THE ACADEMY: "A book of honest, direct, sympathetic, humorous writing about Australia from within is worth a library of travellers' tales. The result is a real book-a book in a hundred. His language is terse, supple, and richly idiomatic. He can tell a yarn with the best."' THE SCOTSMAN: "There is no lack of dramatic imagination in the construction of the tales; and the best of them contrive to construct a strong sensational situation in a couple of pages. But the chief charm and value of the book is its fidelity to the rough character of the scenes from which it is drawn." LITERATURE: "These sketches bring us into contact with one phase of colonial life at first hand. The simplicity of the narrative gives it almost the effect of a story that is told by word of mouth."' ON THE TRACK AND OVER THE SLIPRAILS. DAILY CHRONICLE: "Will well sustain the reputation its author has already won as the best writer of Australian short stories and sketches the literary world knows." PALL MALL GAZETTE: The volume now received will do much to enhance the author's reputation. There is all the quiet irresistible humour of Dickens in the description of 'The Darling River,' and the creator of 'Truthful James' never did anything better in the way of character sketches than Steelman and Mitchell." GLASGOW HERALD: "Mr. Lawson must now be regarded as facile princeps in the production of the short tale. Some of these brief and even slight sketches are veritable gems that would be spoiled by an added word, and without a word that can be looked upon as superfluous.' London: The Australian Book Co., 21 Warwick Lane, E. C. |