SONGS OF A SOURDOUGH. By Robert W. Service. Crown 8vo. Cloth, 4/6 net. Thirty-ninth Impression. Also a Pocket edition. Fcap. 8vo, cloth, 4/6 net.
“Of the Canadian disciples of Kipling, by far the best is R. W. Service. His ‘Songs of a Sourdough’ have run through many editions. Much of his verse has a touch of real originality, conveying as it does a just impression of the something evil and askew in the strange, uncouth wilderness of the High North.” The Times.
“Mr. Service has got nearer to the heart of the old-time place miner than any other verse-maker in all the length and height of the Dominion. . . . He certainly sees the Northern Wilderness through the eyes of the man into whose soul it is entered.” Morning Post.
RHYMES OF A RED-CROSS MAN. By Robert W. Service. Crown 8vo. Cloth, 4/6 net. Fifth Impression. Also a Pocket edition. Fcap. 8vo, cloth, 4/6 net.
“It is the great merit of Mr. Service’s verses that they are literally alive with the stress and joy and agony and hardship that make up life out in the battle zone. He has never written better than in this book, and that is saying a great deal.” Bookman.
“Mr. Service has painted for us the unutterable tragedy of the war, the horror, the waste, and the suffering, but side by side with that he has set the heroism, the endurance, the unfailing cheerfulness and the unquenchable laughter.” Scots Pictorial..
BALLADS OF A CHEECHAKO. By Robert W. Service. Crown 8vo. Cloth, 4/6 net. Thirteenth Impression. Also a Pocket edition. Fcap. 8vo. Cloth, 4/6 net.
“It is to men like Mr. Service that we must look for really original verse nowadays; to the men on the frontiers of the world. ‘Ballads of a Cheechako’ is magnificent.” Oxford Magazine.
“All are interesting, arresting, and worth reading in their own setting for their own sakes. They are full of life and fire and muscularity, like the strenuous and devil-may-care fight of a life they describe.” Standard.
RHYMES OF A ROLLING STONE. By Robert W. Service. Crown 8vo. Cloth, 4/6 net. Fourteenth Impression. Also a Pocket Edition. Fcap. 8vo. Cloth, 4/6 net.