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THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, AND OTHER VERSES.


 * "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."


 * "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."


 * "At his best he compares not unfavourably with the author of 'Barrack-Room Ballads.'"

RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE, AND OTHER VERSES.


 * "There is no mistaking the vigour of Mr. Paterson's verse; there is no difficulty in feeling the strong human interest which moves in it."


 * "Now and again a deeper theme, like an echo from the older, more experienced land, leads him to more serious singing, and proves that real poetry is, after all, universal. It is a hearty book."

THE SECRET KEY, AND OTHER VERSES.


 * "There is…the breath of that apparently immortal spirit which has inspired…almost all that is best in English higher song."


 * "Mr. Evans has written many charming and musical poems,…many pretty and haunting lines."