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.
THE POETICAL WORKS OF BRUNTON STEPHENS.
New edition, with photogravure portrait. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 5s.
Sydney Morning Herald (N.S.W.): “ ‘The Poetical Works of Brunton Stephens,’ as now published by Messrs. Angus and Robertson, is a book which every Australian should have on his bookshelves, whether these bookshelves cover walls or are merely the small collection which the man of taste, however shrunken his purse, is bound to make. Brunton Stephens deserves his place in even the smallest of collections. The chief of Australian poets he has contributed to English literature work of distinguished merit. He is many-sided, embracing all sorts and conditions of men and things.”
The Melbourne Argus: “Mr. Brunton Stephens has for some years enjoyed an established reputation as one of the best among the small and select cluster of Australian poets.... Mr. Stephens is specially favoured, in that he not only has at command a vein of true pathos, but he has moments of real humour. In more than one poem, too, he has made good his right to be regarded as the poet of brotherhood and the prophet of federation.”
The Melbourne Age: “It is certainly one of the happiest of his efforts, and exhibits alike his copious vocabulary and his mastery of a most attractive form of metre.... A poet both in thought and feeling.”
Newcastle (N.S.W.) Morning Herald: “Of the rapidly lengthening roll of Australian writers, none deserves a higher place than Brunton Stephens. For more than a generation he has charmed his countrymen with his exquisite verse.”