SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:  “The indefinable charm is here, and the spell, and the music....  A distinct advance for Australian verse in ideality, in grace and polish, in the study of the rarer forms of verse, and in the true faculty of poetic feeling and expression.”

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WINE AND ROSES:  A New Volume of Poems.

By VICTOR J. DALEY.  With portrait.  Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (postage 2d.)

DAILY TELEGRAPH:  “Most of his verse is tinged with sadness—­as in most Irish poetry—­but there is a fine imaginative quality that lifts it to a far higher plane than that of the conventional melancholy rhymer.  There are poems in this book that recall the magic of 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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