JIM OF THE HILLS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2083, 29 January 1920, Page 3

JIM OF THE HILLS.

Proia tiio publisher-', Mes.-us Aniens ami Robertson, ol‘ ■ Sydney, wo arc in receipt of a copy of C. J. Dennis 7 latest book of verso entitled, “Jim of the Hills.”

In “Jim of,the Hills” Air Dennis lakes us into the hush-clad'hills of Victoria, where “Willin’ hands are honoured hands, and shirkin' is ‘lhe’ sin,” and introduces as to a new set of characters wiih “hearts that work, can never break' an’ minds'that, must keep young.’’ His hero, “Lonely Jim, the bloke that don’t say much,” having arrived at Ihe age of' thirty, bethinks himself of taking a wife. The widow down* al the store is attractive, hut it has not been Jim’s habit to “go gay at times an’ thrown around the cash,” and marriage is a serious affair, so he JiesUa’tes.

Me an’ my old dog’s been talkin' quite a lot—of love an’ things

Weighin’ matters; an’ we reckon this here love is full of stings. Love ah' all that talk, we reckon, is a silly sort of Take — What’s a plain man wantin’ further if his wife can wash an' bake ! . .

Jim lights his rival, Ben Murray, for Ihe widow, and wins, and on the following day says: “I thought (he world was,mine for keeps; but f’d'u lot |o learn.” So be. bad. Visitors arrive at the Mill, and while (he boss is explaining to litem “bow trees are made of wood” Jim meets bis fate, Tor “then the one with sunlit hair came right hang up to

me. That, nielli lie took his old dog into his confidence again, hut when Jim told him of his Jove. ‘hilc rose, aiid yawned, and shut me tip with one .crook choice of scorn."

'flu’s "Story iu Khyme” relates how the "Vision with the sunlight iu her hair” captured both Jim and his dog. Wo recommend this booh to all lovers of Australian life. It may he obtained at all booksellers at -Is (id.