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Che Bulletin Reciter.

By Eighty "Bulletin" Writers.

Sixth thousand. Cloth, with fourteen illustrations.

Price, 4s. 6d.

This book contains a selection of eighty pieces of verse for recitation, chosen from the columns of The Bulletin. Here will be found Spencer's "How McDougall Topped the Score," Ogilvie's "Scotch Night," and " How We Won the Ribbon," Fisher's " Billiard Marker's Yarn," Barcroft Boake's " Skeeta," and many another piece famous over Australasia.

tfte Red Pagan,

By A. G. Stephens.

A collection of this writer's sketches and criticisms, chiefly from " The

Red Page " of The Bulletin.

Paper, 3s. 6d. ; cloth, gilt top, 6s.

The Evening Post, Wellington, says : " Mr. Stephens' critical work, eloquent and incisive, is well known to readers of Australian literature."

The Weekly Press, Christchurch, says: " Piquant, provoking, stimulating, is every page of this work."


Castro's Cast Sacrament, and Otfter Stories.

By Albert Dorrington.

"The most brilliant short stories produced in Australia."

Contents.

Castro's Last Sacra- Silhouettes-The Queen The King of the

ment of Clubs ; A Study Domain

A Bush Tanqueray in Competition; The Hunchback's

La Revanche Goliath ; The Second Syllogism

The Mother of an In- Satire Cardigan

vention Smoke-Ho ! The Coward

A Bush Singer The Curing of Little In the Grip of the

Red Rafferty's Son Jan Tromp Martyr

The Sign of the Cross A Blind Man's Holiday Quilp

The Return The Sneeze

" He has been everywhere and seen everything, and he has to no ordinary extent the power of presenting things as they seemed to him— the gift of vivid and powerful narration. . . . Contains dramatic pictures which the best of our artists in words might well envy."— Sydney Morning Herald.

" The stories are often filled with incidents that startle the reader, and emotions whose very strength makes him shiver. . . . Mr. Dorrington 's warrant as a writer of short stories is that of absolute genius."— Sydney Daily Tetegraph.

Cloth, decorated, 350 pp. Price, 2s. 6d.


Websdale, Shoosmith & Co., Printers, Sydney.

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