The Lay of The Bantry Bay.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 9 March 1918, Page 1

The Lay of The Bantry Bay.

AND OTHER VERSES. (By GEORGE POWICK BROWN.)

64 pages octavo; price Is 6d; obtainable from booksellers throughout New Zealand.

SOME PRESS NOTES

"Much of Mr Brown's verge may be described as '"Bulleitinesque," and indeed some of it has already- appeaired in the popular pirtk-covored journal. .... Some of the verse is philosophical in character; some, again, betokens Jofty imagination. "Ixion's Wheel" and "Tlie 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 three score of pieces in the book of 64 pages are dlesetrving of a wide circle of readers."—The-Auck-land Star.

". . . . Brown is not quite so adept a versifier as he is a journalist, but there is 'meat' in all hig metrical essays. . . . Perhaps the most impressive no6e th© Levin bard, strikes (is the Tinaffeabed humanity which permeates many of his stanzas. ... In a truly literary sent-e 'The Lay of tlhe Bantry Bay' is near the foot of the catalogue; nevertheless it contains plenty of en_ tortainmen'j and not a little helpful instruction for those homely folk whose brains swim in the higher flights of poesy."—The Ghristchurch Sun. ". . . . In this comprehensive collection we see the poet at his best ('A Truce to the Outward Bound,' 'Yacht Song' and 'Gyrarabo, Gyroosh and Gyrah')—and also afc his worst, in the reproduction of much of his contributions to the Levin Chronicle, what --The Feilding Star.