BOOK NOTICES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2455, 3 April 1901, Page 70

BOOK NOTICES.

"FAIR GIRLS AND GRAY HORSES." *- By Will H. Ogilvie. Bulletin Newspaper Co., Sydney. The new edition of the above verses completes a triumphal eight thousand copies of Will Ogilvie's charming book. It seems but a short time -since the first edition lay uncut upon our table, and Aye read with pleasure the lines dedicating it : i To all fair girls' for the sake of one, Whose bught, blue eyes were awhile my star; ' Whose hair had the rich red gold of the sun, When his kisses fall where the leaf lips are! and with keen appreciation of enchanting memories the verse, To all gray hor3es! fill up again, For the sake of a gray horse dear to me; Foi a foam-fed bit and a snatching rem, nd a reaching galloper far and free. It is with r.o abatement of pleasure that we turn the leaves again to-day and love, loaf, lace, and win or fail under God's blue sky with the writer, -h hose vitality, sympathy, and knowledge of life throb through every page of "Fair Girls and Gray Horses."' Very few men caie about anything that bears the name of poetry in these days, but he must be effete and weakly indeed wLGSe languid senses do not quicken to the wine of love and the lhythym of galloping hoofs in Will Ogilvie's pages. It is one of the books that the BulI letin Company may be proud of standing sponsors to. A very good portrait of the author foims a welcome frontispiece, though for artistic harmony we much prefer the gray-green binding and few but excellent etchings of the first edition. THE MIND OF THE CENTURY. London : Mr T. Fisher Unwin. A series of remarkably good articles reprinted from the Daily Chronicle form the ! contents of this little crimson-bound volume. The various topics are treated by many different authors, on whose roll call we find such well-known names as those of William Archer, Edward Clodd, Joseph Pennell, etc , etc. It is in the development of the drama, music, art. philosophy, education, science, medicine, tiavel, etc., etc , that we find the only tine eonceiVucn of the ' 3lind of the Ccatuiv. '

It has been, of course, only possible in each article to deal with the broad ar.d general lines of the subject under discussion. The result, however, is eminently successful, and a more careful, comprehensive, sometimes brilliant, and anon sympathetic synopsis of "The Mind of the Century " it would be hai-d to find. Publisher and public may alike be congratulated.