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[From a section of Advertisements, 1909.]
THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER,
AND OTHER VERSES.
By A. B. Paterson.
* "The immediate success of this book of bush ballads is without parallel
in Colonial literary annals, nor can any living English or American poet
boast so wide a public, always excepting Mr. Rudyard Kipling."
* "These lines have the true lyrical cry in them.
Eloquent and ardent verses."
* "Swinging, rattling ballads of ready humour, ready pathos,
and crowding adventure. . . . Stirring and entertaining ballads
about great rides, in which the lines gallop like the very hoofs
of the horses."
* "At his best he compares not unfavourably with the author
of `Barrack-Room Ballads'."
* Mr. A. Patchett Martin (London): "In my opinion,
it is the absolutely un-English, thoroughly Australian style and character
of these new bush bards which has given them such immediate popularity,
such wide vogue, among all classes of the rising native generation."
* "Australia has produced in Mr. A. B. Paterson a national poet
whose bush ballads are as distinctively characteristic of the country
as Burns's poetry is characteristic of Scotland.
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