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Levin Daily Chronicle, 11 December 1917, Page 3

PATRIOTIC TEA. Given b.v Tjevan Ladie-' Conquet Club. on Bowling Green. In aid of Y.M.C.A. TRENCH FUND. To be held on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, '1017. open at 2 p.m. Cake and Sweet Stalls, Travelling-rug, Bran. Tub and Competitions. ADMISSION — Gdi. RED CROSS SHOPSATURDAY, DEC. 15, 191 T. Last Shop Dav till end of JAN I - ARY 1918. The committe have decided to devote next SATURDAY'S takings to the same fund as last Saturday "KING GEORGE'S SAILORS' , FUND." For the dependents and the men of the British Navy, and the mercantile marine. Can anyone suggest a more worthy cause than our sailors ? Last Saturday realised £--55, and another £15 wiil make the £50'' Donations of all kinds are asked for, including cash. For the Committee, K. GOLDSMITH. Hon. Secretary.

" The Lay of The Bantry Bay." ; AND- OTHER VEIUSIuS. (By GEO'RGiE POWiCK BROWN.) 64 pages octavo; price Is (id ; obtainable from booksellers throughout New Zealand. SOME IHESS NOTES: "Much of Mr Brown's verges may bo described as "Bulleitinesque," and indeed some of it has already appealed iii the popular pink-covered journa'l. .... Some of the verse is philosophical in character; some, again, betokens fofty imagination. "Ixion's I Wheel"'and "The Life Eternal" are cases in point?'.—The .Evening Pofifc, Wellington. "Mr Brown's muse is of the versatile order—now sentimental, anon deeply philosophic, and then whimsically humorous. . . . The throe score of pieces in; the book of G4 pages are cfcserving of a wide circle of readers."—The Auckland Star. ". . . . Brown is not quite so adept j a versifier a<s he iis a journalist, but there is 'meat' in all big metrical essays. . . . Perhaps the most impressive nd.:,e the Levin bard strikes is the imaffeci'jed humanity which permeates many of his stanzas. ... In a truly literacy senile 'The Lay of the Bantry Bay' is neaa - the foot of the catalogue ; nevertheless it contains plenty of en. i tertainmeiiii and not a little helpful instruction for those homely folk whose brains swim in the higher flights of poesy."—The Christchurch Sun. ". . . . In this comprehensive collection we see tlie poet at his best ('A Truce to the Outward Bound,' 'Yacht Song' and 'Gyranibo, Gyroosh and Gyrah')—and also afi his wor s t, in the reproduction of much of his contributions to the Levin Ohronicle, what time he was editor of that journal. —Hie Feilding Star.