And as man's vision, intensified by the lens of science, pierces deeper and deeper into the universe of the ineffably great and the illimitably small, and as his wonder and awe increase with what they feed upon, so will the finer souls of humankind be thrilled and thrilled again with rich new suggestions and exquisite emotions, and they shall express them in poetry. The poetry of man will not fail us. So long as man has a heart wherewith to love another better than himself, to feel the joy of possession or the pang of loss, to glow with pride at a nation's glories or mourn in its dejection, so long shall the lyric and the elegy, in whatsoever shape, create themselves ever afresh. Till all our life, its institutions, and its beliefs are perfect: till man has no doubts, no fears, no hopes: till he has analysed all his emotions and despises them: till the heavens above and the earth beneath can be read like a printed scroll: till nature has yielded up her last mystery: till that day poetry will exist among men. And we may dare to assert that the future of poetry is destined to be greater than its past, that Tennyson's prayer will be fulfilled-- Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell, That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before But vaster, And the expression of that music will be poetry. * * * * * A SELECTION FROM THE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY Thomas C. Lothian, 100, FLINDERS STREET, MELBOURNE. INDEX OF TITLES. PAGE Australians Yet 9 Bush, The 7 Bushland Ballads 9 Dark Tower, The 12 Dawnward 7 Dominions of the Boundary 7 Eating for Health 8 Ginger Talks on Business 6 Guide to the Study of Australian Butterflies 9 House of Broken Dreams, The 5 Keeyuga Cookery Book, The 11 Later Litanies 5 Litanies of Life 5 Mateship 9 Mosquitoes: Their Habits and Distribution 9 No Breakfast; or, the Secret of Life 12 Peradventure 12 Poems by Jennings Carmichael 9