Bulletin: “How graphic he is, how natural, how true, how strong.”
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 title. 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.”
Athenæum: “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 classes of the rising native generation.”
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited.