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-Fourth 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.”