Early Days in North Queensland Part 15

=Otago Witness:= "It were well to have such books upon our shelves....

They are true history."

THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER AND OTHER VERSES.

By A. B. PATERSON.

Twenty-Seventh Thousand. With photogravure portrait and vignette t.i.tle. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 5s.

(_post free 5s. 5d._).

_Presentation edition, French Morocco, gilt edges, 9s._

=The Literary Year Book:= "The immediate success of this book of bush ballads is without parallel in Colonial literary annals, nor can any living English or American poet boast so wide a public, always excepting Mr. Rudyard Kipling."

=The Times:= "At his best he compares not unfavourably with the author of 'Barrack Room Ballads.'"

=Spectator:= "These lines have the true lyrical cry in them. Eloquent and ardent verses."

=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."

Mr. A. PATCHETT MARTIN, in =Literature= (London): "In my opinion it is the absolutely un-English, thoroughly Australian style and character of these new bush bards which has given them such immediate popularity, such wide vogue, among all cla.s.ses of the rising native generation."

_London: Macmillan & Co., Limited._

THE POETICAL WORKS OF BRUNTON STEPHENS.

New edition, with photogravure portrait. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 5s.

_See also Commonwealth Series, page 2._

=Sydney Morning Herald (N.S.W.):= "'The Poetical Works of Brunton Stephens' is a book which every Australian should have on his bookshelves, whether these bookshelves cover walls or are merely the small collection which the man of taste, however shrunken his purse, is bound to make. Brunton Stephens deserves his place in even the smallest of collections. The chief of Australian poets he has contributed to English literature work of distinguished merit. He is many-sided, embracing all sorts and conditions of men and things."

=The Melbourne Argus:= "Mr. Brunton Stephens has for some years enjoyed an established reputation as one of the best among the small and select cl.u.s.ter of Australian poets.... Mr. Stephens is specially favoured, in that he not only has at command a vein of true pathos, but he has moments of real humour. In more than one poem, too, he has made good his right to be regarded as the poet of brotherhood and the prophet of federation."

=The Melbourne Age:= "It is certainly one of the happiest of his efforts, and exhibits alike his copious vocabulary and his mastery of a most attractive form of metre.... A poet, both in thought and feeling."

=Newcastle (N.S.W.) Morning Herald:= "Of the rapidly lengthening roll of Australian writers, none deserves a higher place than Brunton Stephens.

For more than a generation he has charmed his countrymen with his exquisite verse."

RHYMES FROM THE MINES AND OTHER LINES.

By EDWARD DYSON, Author of "A Golden Shanty."

Second Thousand. With photogravure portrait and vignette t.i.tle. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 5s. (_post free, 5s. 5d._).

_Presentation edition, French Morocco, gilt edges, 9s._

FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE.

By MARCUS CLARKE.

With a Memoir of the Author, by A. B. PATERSON, Portrait of the Author, Map of Eagle Hawk Neck and the vicinity, and 14 full-page views of places mentioned in the book.

Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d. (_post free, 4s._)

RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE AND OTHER VERSES.

By A. B. PATERSON.

This is issued uniform with the Snowy River Series at 5s.

The contents are quite up to the standard of "The Man from Snowy River," and as the demand is certain to be very large we would ask the Trade to place their orders at once.

FLOOD-TIDE.

By SARAH P. McL. GREENE, Author of "Vesty of the Basins,"

&c.

Cloth, 3s. 6d.; paper, 2s. 6d.

=The Argus= (ALBANY, N.Y.): "'Flood-Tide' is a strong dramatic story of primitive life in a hamlet coast town in Maine. It is a study of human nature set in primitive surroundings, and is full of the pathos and humour of life's little comedies. 'Flood-Tide' is full of 'characters.'

There is Johnny Dinsmore, whose wayward humours and mischievous pranks keep his mother and the whole neighbourhood on thorns, and who is one of the most delightful young imps ever turned loose in fiction, not even excepting Sentimental Tommy. Captain Shale, with his sc.r.a.ps of rustic philosophy, is a quaint original, worthy of David Harum's companions.h.i.+p.

His reflections on the subject of clothes are of a piece with those of Teufelsdrochk: 'The world's a-dyin' of clo's. So fur as I can see, the sons o' men is pretty much all a-strugglin' for one kind and another o'

clo's; that's what it amounts to...."

THE SPIRIT OF THE BUSH FIRE AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN FAIRY TALES. BY J. M.

WHITFELD.

Second Thousand. With 32 ill.u.s.trations by G. W. Lambert.

Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. (_post free, 3s._).

TEENS. A Story of Australian Schoolgirls.

BY LOUISE MACK.

Fourth Thousand. With 14 full-page ill.u.s.trations by F. P.

Mahony. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 2s. 6d.

=Sydney Morning Herald:= "Ought to be welcome to all who feel the responsibility of choosing the reading books of the young ... its gaiety, impulsiveness, and youthfulness will charm them."

=Sydney Daily Telegraph:= "Nothing could be more natural, more sympathetic."