NEW BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 11024, 15 September 1897, Page 2

NEW BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Wueke the Dead Men Lie, and other poems. By Barcrof r Boake. — Angus and Robertson, Sydney. This volume, which we have received through Mr Gilmoar, stationer, is the fifth of a series of publications by thi9 well-known firm, of prose and poetry by Australian native talent, Henry Lawson, A. B. Paterson, and Edward Dyson being the authors of the earlier volumes. A melancholy interest attaches to these verses owing to the tragic nature of the young poet's death. Like Lindsay Gordon, one of Australia's finest of authors, poor Boake put an end to his own life, a brief memoir of which is attached to his poems. These bear all too evidently thejtrace of that melancholy which, had marked the author for its own, amounting in some of the verses almost to morbidity. Yet the very mournfulness of the lines gives them a charm, while the truth and faithfulness of local color show how keen an observer he was. Some of his poems, in lighter vein, deal with that subject which all Australians love to read and write about, tho horse. With tho exception of two or three, the whole of tho poems appeared first in the Syduey Bulletin, a paper which doe 3 much for the encouragement of native talent, while Mr Stephens, the editor of the collection, and to Messrs Angus and Robertson, readers owe a world of gratitude for their enterprise in gathering together these scattered gems and publishing them iv book form, illustrated as they are by some oE the best artists iv Australia.

The New Zealand Cricketers' Annual for 1897, published by Abel, Dykes & Co., Auckland, is a handbook which should be in the hands of every cricketer. It contains tha laws of cricket, revised up to date, the rules o£ jhe New Zealand Cricket Council, and a full report of the annual meeting of that body, the averages of the Ninth Australian team, full reports, of provincial matches in Now Zealand for the season 1896 7, brsidesa ma«s of information of value and interest to cricketers. Its price is only one shilling.

The New Zealand Cyclist for September 11th contains as a supplement the third of. aseriesof road maps for tourists. Tho paper keeps ur» its character as a leading cycling journal.