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WHERE THE DEAD MEN LIE AND OTHER POEMS.

, in : "Boake's work is often praised for its local colour; but it has something better than that. It has atmosphere―Australian atmosphere, that makes you feel the air of the place breathe the breath of the life."


 * "There is no question, can be none, of the intimate faithfulness of every touch that gives us landscape, atmosphere."


 * "An essential publication, full of human interest."


 * "There is enough merit in these remains to show that Boake was, to say the least, a writer of promise, and to make us regret that his life was cut short in so sad and untimely a manner."

THE POETICAL WORKS OF BRUNTON STEPHENS.