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 LAURENCE HOPE'S LOVE LYRICS.

THE GARDEN OF KAMA.


 * "No one has so truly interpreted the Indian mind no one, transcribing Indian thought into our literature, has retained so high and serious a level, and quite apart from the rarity of themes and setting the verses remain true poems."

STARS OF THE DESERT.


 * "It is not merely that these verses describe Oriental scenes and describe them with vividness, there is a feeling in the rhythm a timbre of the words that seems akin to the sand and palm-trees and the changeless East."

INDIAN LOVE.


 * "The poetry of Laurence Hope must hold a unique place in modern letters. No woman has written lines so full of a strange primeval savagery a haunting music the living force of poetry."

THE WITCH MAID, AND OTHER VERSES.


 * "She possesses to a remarkable degree the faculty of conjuring up before our eyes an extraordinarily vivid picture in a single line or even a word or two. Miss Mackellar can grasp the essential spirit of a scene, and what is rarer still, can find words to make us, too, see it, where before we have been blind."

TO-MORROW: A Dramatic Sketch of the Character and Environment of Robert Greene.


 * "The first Australian play of literary worth."

SONGS OF A SUNLIT LAND.