WHERE THE DEAD MEN LIE, AND OTHER POEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2274, 30 September 1897, Page 52

WHERE THE DEAD MEN LIE, AND OTHER POEMS.

By Bahcroft Boake.

Melbourne : Angus and Robertson. Dunedin :

Tames Horsburgh.

This volnme of Australian poems scarcely seems to justify its existence as a volume. There are certainly some pieces of undoubted force and power, but they are few, and are scattered among so much that is mere jingle that the whole impression of the reader is one of disappointment. The best of the verses are thoss which many people well remember reading in the Sydney Bulletin, where their appearance as isolated efforts would naturally create a far more favourable impression than is given by the concentration in one volume of so much melancholy pessimism.

A considerable portion of the book is devoted to a memoir of Mr Barcroft Boake, which, valuahle no doubt to hia friends, can scarcely be of general interest any more than the family portraits with which it is embellished, If a "school of Australian poetry " is to ba founded, we really must deprecate the inclusion of every fragile bit of cynical versification which finds its way into the Bulletin.

— Jack : " How is your sister getting on with her singing lesson ? " Cissie : " Well, papa has taken the wadding out of his ears for the first time to-day."

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