Short Extracts from Poems and Letters Received by the Author
The following lines were received from Mr. William Murray of Hamilton:
"In writing you do not pretend
With Tennysonian themes to blend,
It is an independent style
Begotten on Canadian soil."
The Editor of the Toronto Globe, after reviewing a number other books pronounced our little volume to be the gem of the table.
Col. Denison, Toronto's police magistrate, "found many interesting pieces on Canadian subjects in the volume."
Joaquin Miller, the American poet, hailed me as "my dear poet of the Canadian pasture fields," and he said I did wisely in singing of useful themes.
Dr. Scadding, the Antiquarian, thought my poem on Father Rannie, the cheese pioneer, "had the ring of a fine old ballad about it."
The Hon. Oliver Mowat was pleased with the patriotic spirit displayed in the poems.
