The boys will be sorry to say good-bye to their vicious, stuttering pets; and let us hope that, the guns, when they are returned to Ordnance, will cease to (metaphorically) curl their lips in disdain at their humble and erratic poor relations, the Hotchkiss rifles of the Regiments. “SARG.” Delivered! A wounded earth is free again, The barriers of the East are down; With many a mound above the slain, The zones of battle, bare and brown, Shall feel the tears of wintertide, (War’s aftermath of sorrowing) Till Nature heals their scars of pride And flowers perfume a deathless spring. “GERARDY.” [Illustration: FINISH] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _ANGUS & ROBERTSON’S AUSTRALIAN PUBLICATIONS._ THE ART OF ARTHUR STREETON. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and C. Lloyd Jones, with critical and biographical articles by P. G. Konody, Julian Ashton and Lionel Lindsay. With coloured reproductions of 35 of Streeton’s best landscapes and 20 others in black-and-white, 10¼ × 8¾ inches, 42s. [_Ready in October._ THE ART OF CONRAD MARTENS. Edited by Lionel Lindsay, assisted by G. V. F. Mann, Director of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales. With reproductions of 60 of Martens’ pictures, mostly in colour, 10¼ × 8¾ inches, 42s. [_In preparation._ THE ART OF J. J. HILDER. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith, with a Life of Hilder by Bertram Stevens, and contributions by Julian Ashton and Harry Julius. With reproductions of 36 of Hilder’s pictures in colour and 20 in black-and-white, 10¼ × 8¾ inches, 42s. SELECTED POEMS OF HENRY LAWSON. Selected and carefully revised by Mr. Lawson, and containing several new poems, wholly printed from new type, with portrait in colour, and 9 full-page illustrations by Percy Leason. 9½ × 7¼ inches, 12s. 6d. DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE IN AUSTRALIA. Special Number of Art in Australia. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith and Bertram Stevens, in collaboration with W. Hardy Wilson. With 5 articles by leading Australian Architects and 47 full-page illustrations, 11¼ × 9 inches, 21s.