Part 6 (1/2)
This book is thoroughly representative of the best Australian verse, and, although intended mainly as a selection suitable for young folks, it contains many pieces favoured by older readers. A number of the poems are not obtainable in any other book.
_THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF AUSTRALIAN VERSE._
Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by BERTRAM STEVENS. New (fourth) edition, revised and enlarged. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (_postage 2d._)
ATHENAEUM: ”May be regarded as representative of the best short pieces written by Australians or inspired by life in Australia or New Zealand.”
_London: Macmillan & Co., Limited._
_THE POETICAL WORKS OF BRUNTON STEPHENS._
As finally revised by the author, re-arranged and printed from new type, with photogravure portrait. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (_postage 2d._)
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 compa.s.s, as evidenced in theme, sentiment, and style.”
_WHERE THE DEAD MEN LIE AND OTHER POEMS._
By BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE. Second edition, revised and enlarged, with memoir, portraits, and 32 ill.u.s.trations. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s.
6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (_postage 2d._)
J. BRUNTON STEPHENS, in THE BULLETIN: ”Boake's work is often praised for its local colour; but it has something better than that. It has atmosphere--Australian atmosphere, that makes you feel the air of the place--breathe the breath of the life.”
_AT DAWN AND DUSK: Poems._
By VICTOR J. DALEY. Fourth edition. With photogravure portrait. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (_postage 2d._)
BOOKMAN: ”These verses are full of poetic fancy musically expressed.”
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.”
_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....