THE SOUL OF THE TMTREE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14223, 20 November 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE SOUL OF THE TMTREE.

"The Soul of the Ti-Tree," by Edwina C. Geach (Thomas C. Lothian, 226, Little Collins-street, Melbourne), is so remarkable that all its readers will regret the death of the young author of these collected fragments. The little book abounds in fine writing, from which it is difficult to select an' example. Here is one, which will appeal "to New Zealanders : " Have you ever seen one of the great forest kings, bound in chains, going through the city, silent and still in the sorrow of death? When I see one of these grand monarchs thus ignobly chained, I bow before him in spirit, awed at sight of the soverign torn from his mountain throne, and carried captive to an alien land. Away from his hosts of the long-reaching arms of green —his serried ranks of soldiers that,- did him homage 1 and service—his own great branches to fling themselves no more against the pale horizon, catching the first sweet light of the dawning, and sending the whisper of its comincr, down, down, into the matted green life at his base. The noble form that took the mountain storms, or made sweet mirsic as the sea breeze swept over it. "Ah: to see such in fetters bound for another land. There is still a dignity about him that nothing can take away; great heroic soul going calmly to his doom."