Such Is Cifc,
By Tom Coujns.
Such is Life is original in scheme. The author sets out with an unpremeditated purpose of amplifying the diary memoranda of one week, and his book naturally falls into seven chapters. The first date is taken at hazard, from a series of filled-up pocket diaries.
This random text introduces five typical bullock drivers, with three or four assorted nomads. The day is uneventful, but the night's camp (a risky grass-steal) is enlivened by Out-back topics. The scene is on the Lachlan plains.
Then, for sufficient reasons, the diary records cease to be consecu- tive, and are henceforth separated by monthly intervals. The scene of Chap. II is placed in the Lachlan-Darling scrub country, amongst station hands. Chap. Ill opens on the Murray, between Echuca and Albury. Chap. IV displays the Lower Lachlan, with actors proper to the scene; and Chap. V falls in an adjacent locality, with all accessories widely dissimilar. Chap. VI returns to the vicinity of Chap. I, but the aspect is squattocratic, not nomadic. Chap. VII is arbitrarily built on a date six or seven weeks subsequent to that of its forerunner, in order to serve as a sequel.
Underneath this obvious dislocation of anything resembling narrative run several undercurrents of plot, manifest to the reader, though ostensibly unnoticed by the author.
In cloth, decorated, 300 pp. Price. 4s. 6d.
maoriland, and Otfrer Verses .
By Arthur H. Adams.
Partial List of Contents.
Maoriland.
Maoriland
On the Plains
The Dwellings of Our
Dead Rain in the Bush The Storm and the
Bush The Coming of Te
Rauparaha Written in Australia The Brave Days to be
Love Motives.
To You
Lament
On the Sands
A Portrait
After Long Years
Blossom of Life
The Goal
The most
Grey Eyes
Just a Woman
Satana
A Woman's Farewell
And Yet ?
Sonnets.
A.D. 19 ?
My Land
Love and Life
The New Woman
Reminiscence
The Four Queens
(Maoriland) To My Love The Stars
The Girl at the Harp Sunset
The Perfect Present Lovers China, 1899
Antagonists
Sydney
Morning Peace To One Slain in Absence
Other Verses.
Myself — My Song The Poet to be Yet Sydney Nocturnes; From the North Shore ; King Street ; In Hyde Park The Australian The Anarchist A Song of Failure The Garden of the Sea Bereft A Question Epitaph The Minstrel : A Drama
characteristic book of Maoriland verse.
Buckram, gilt top, with portrait. Price, 5s.
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