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 scraps of rustic philosophy, is a quaint original, worthy of David Harum’s companionship. 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 illustrations 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 illustrations by F. P. Mahony. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 2s. 6d.