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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2121, 13 April 1914, Page 8

Jfr, Donald M'Liiughlin, of Auckland, is the author of ajittlo bock or \eiscs, "Tho March o£ tho Mongol Men and Other Ithjmos" (Breit Co., Auckland, I , ?.). It is a wend and wonderful production, including patriotic offusioni,, veises suggested h? various South African \iar ;nc?dcnts, and sketches of an ostom-iMy huiiiorous chaiactor of station and un-couiitry life geiicially. Tho nuthor draws a fearsome picture, of an iii\adM N'cn - Zealand. "England , i Proadnouchl Na\,y, manii'd by tho hulldog breod," Favrs neither tlio MolhoN land nor her otprsnas Domiuions. T\m iloot, wo staked our lives upon was. boat<Mi, wrecked, end loet, Tho Biorchanl sen ice brolseu up with sio regnid to eost. A million j-o'Joiv Mongols had itcanied from CltiiiPsfl aoaSj And Ijondon, .sfjtrved oiuT wretched, was forced upon lior Lnccs. As for jwor Nc\r Zealand, the terrible Asiatic givoi its an equally bad timo:— hnd io fnco the music on our oru ihrco-noiighMh'-ccs, A million yellow Mongols sucked our honoy up like bevel From North to South they messicrod; they slanghtoied Ea-4 and West; Tlio.v took n-hato'cr tlioy wanted, and tlioy Jiover lacked tho l^sl. 1 ivoke And elenned my rifle, so i ivid frfts my drcain. I blwied Australia's IVakin for Ins gjr-at defenniv" scheiv.o, I thank'(l the iSmi'ss, and called to I mind each good old Highland clan I But liorestly, why don't we here- get some protective planp Mr. M'liauphlin has I notice b'y -what ho Ciilh Ins "Pwiii," published n pro vmus worlk, "Tho Legend of Ilia Watft." which lias, ho say, liad a "favourable ftvpliou at tho liaJids of the readuic nvit'iio ut N T c>v Zealand. 1 * I must look T t lip.