By Will H. Ogilvie
Songs of a Sentimental Bloke. By C. J. Dennis
The Man from Snowy River. By Major A. B. Paterson
Rio Grande, and other Verses. By Major A. B. Paterson
Over 30,000 volumes of these Editions for the Trenches have been sold
during the last five months. They are illustrated in colour
by Norman Lindsay, Hal Gye and Lionel Lindsay, and are obtainable
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About the author:
Andrew Barton Paterson was born on 17 February 1864 at Narambla,
New South Wales. He lived at Illalong station until he was ten,
when he went to Sydney to attend school. He trained as a solicitor
(a type of lawyer) but also contributed some verse to the Sydney "Bulletin"
under the pseudonym of "The Banjo", taken from the name of a horse.
His first book, "The Man from Snowy River", was published in 1895,
and has sold more copies than any other book of Australian poetry.
He later gave up law to become a journalist, and went to South Africa
to report on the Boer War. When World War I broke out
he sought work as a war correspondent, but failed to get it.
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