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 WINE AND ROSES: A New Volume of Poems.


 * Most of his verse is tinged with sadness―as in most Irish poetry―but there is a fine imaginative quality that lifts it to a far higher plane than that of the conventional melancholy rhymer. There are poems in this book that recall the magic of Rossetti..,.… [sic]Victor Daley has left his mark in the beginnings of an Australian literature.

AT DAWN AND DUSK: POEMS.


 * These verses are full of poetic fancy musically expressed.


 * The indefinable charm is here, and the spell, and the music.…A distinct advance for Australian verse in ideality, in grace and polish, in the study of the rarer forms of verse, and in the true faculty of poetic feeling and expression.


 * Open this book where you will, you are caught at once into a land of dreams.

HOW HE DIED, AND OTHER POEMS.


 * "Farrell's contributions to the literature of this country were always distinguished by a fine, stirring optimism, a genuine sympathy, and an idealistic sentiment which in the book under notice find their fullest expression."


 * "Of the part of Mr. Farrell's work contained in this volume it is not necessary to say more than that it has long since received sincere commendation, not only from other Australian writers, but from men eminent in letters in England and America."