MRS. COLVILLE'S POEMS.

NZ Truth, Issue 60, 18 August 1906, Page 3

MRS. COLVILLE'S POEMS.

TO THE EDITOR.

; Sir,— ln your issue of June 23rd I read your very able criticism on Mrs Oplville s ; book of poems and -songs on home and abroad. I, got a copy of the book, and the more I read it the better I like it. As "Truth" justly remarked, "it is a wonderful book " .There is something so truthful, natural, and humane running through Mrs Uolville s poems, that cannot fail to touch the sympathies of the reader. How like the plough-boy bard she. writes. I have never read a book that comes so near to Burns's work* She has the same ardent love of liberty justice and humanity ; the same love of truth, patriotism and honest independence ; the same hatred to hypocrisy, tyranny, slavery and oppression m every form. And how like him she battles for the down-trodden poor. There is no doiibt "but that Mrs Colville has picked, up. the pen that Burns laid down. r And she well deserves the name of New Zealand's sweet and sane singer.— Yours, etc., A LOVER OF POETRY. ■Dunedin, August, 1906."