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New Zealand Tablet, 13 January 1921, Page 17

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Hamlet, edited with Introduction and Notes.By an . examiner under the Board of : Intermediate Education. (Gill and Son, Ltd., Dublin; 2s 6d.) Students of Shakespere will welcome this useful and scholarly edition of the famous play. The introductory study of the subject is in itself an excellent monograph and a valuable contribution to Shakespearian literature. Text and notes leave nothing to be desired. For the class-room or for the study there is no better manual*on Hamlet than this. Hunting Memories of Many Lands, by Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, Bart. (Alexander Thom find Co., Dublin and London.) In this volume Sir Thomas Esmonde has given us an interesting account of his wander-years in many lands; He leads us in fancy with him among the silent forests of Canada, on the trail of the moose in New Brunswick, along the salmon streams and rivers of Newfoundland, after the wolves in savage Europe and stalking the red deer on the green hills of Ireland. We note that New Zealand must have appealed much to him, for we find several chapters devoted not only 'to the sport, but also to the scenery and the beautiful folk-lore of the Dominion. The book is printed on excellent paper, which is a rare thing nowadays, and there are numerous full-page illustrations of the countries in which his hunting was done. Poems , by Roderick Quinn. (Angus and Robertson, Sydney.) Roderick Quinn needs no introduction to Australasian readers, and of the poems in this volume - it may well be said: ‘'Good wine needs no bush.” All the romance of Australian history is in them. They are drenched with feeling for the sunny skies, the vast plains, the lonely seas, and the Bush homes of the great Island Continent. You will find humor , and pathos and love of the open air in Roderick Quinn’s poems. There is hardly a phase of adventure he does not touch, and it goes without saying that what he touches he adorns. It is a true volume of Australian poetry. From Gordon’s day to ours "the bustle and danger of rounding up the herd is a note in the gamut of all Australian singers. Roderick Quinn has seen it with his own eyes—- " With fiery eyes and tossing horns, And swaying sides and hips. They moved—-red hides and hides of black— And ever, as they left the track, We wheeled , and held and drove them back With shouts and cracking whips.” The Heim of the exile is heard in stanzas like the following: "Dear eyes that pain has made divine, Sad eyes that burn with tears unshed, Within whose depths are griefs that pine And pilgrim thoughts that seek the shrine, The grave of their beloved dead; “The Old Year dies; and o’er the waves, Wind-borne, there comes a requiem'' Deep-chanted by , a sea that laves - ■. > ; The shores they loved. Oh, may their graves ' Give goodly rest and peace to them.” y ' .