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Levin Daily Chronicle, 13 December 1917, Page 3

liED CROSS SHOPSATURDAY, DEC. 15, 1917. Last Shop Day till end of JAJsIAllY 1918The committe liave 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 ,£'3s, and another £15 will 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 VERSIiS. (By G-EORGiE POWICJK BROW.X.) 04 pages octavo; price Is (id; obtainable from booksellers throughout Now Zealand. SOME PRESS JS OTES : "Mucli of Mr Brown's verge may be described as ''Bulletinesque," and indeed some of it has already appeaired in the popular pink-covered journal. .... Some of the verse is philosophical in character; some, again, betokens Softy imagination. "Ixion's "Wheal" and "The Life Eternal" arecases in point."—The Evening Pofit:, Wellington. "Mr Brown's muse is of the versatile order—now sentimental, anon deeply philosophic, and then whimsically humorous. . . . The three score of pieces in the book of 64 pages are dlescirving of a wide circle of readers."—The Auckland Star. ". . . . Brown is not quite so adept a versifier a;s .he is a journalist, but there is 'meat' in all big metrical essays. . . . Perhaps the most impressive nc<ie tli© Levin bard strikes as the un- j affeciied humanity which permeates many of his stanzas. ... In a truly literary senf=e "The Lay of the Bantry Bay' is near the foot of the catalogue; nevertheless it contains plenty of cn_ teruiinnieiLj and not a little helpful instruction for those liomelv folk whose bnains .swim in the higher flights of poesy."—The Christchm-ch Sim. ". . .In this comprehensive collection we see the poet at his befit ('A Truce to the Outward Bound,' 'Yacht Song' and 1 'Gyrambo, Gyroosh and Gyrali')—and also afc his worst, in the .reproduction of much of his contributions to the Levin Chronicle, whattime lie was editor of that journal. —Hhe Feeding Star..