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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 76

Press Notices—Continued

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Press Notices—Continued.

"The poem . . . deals with the problems of life—social and religious, and there is a humanitarian spirit running throughout the work."—Auckland Herald, 1893.

"The subject of the little booklet is the struggle of an earnest mind, an anxious soul, between Faith and Doubt, told in good well-formed blank verse. . . . The little book will repay perusal by all who feel interested in the great problems of life and death, in the origin and destiny of man, in his gradual rise as a civilised being . . . and in the unfoldment of his mental powers, his moral sentiments to perfection."—Robert White, Lyceum, Christchurch.

It is evident from the way the writer has dealt with his theme that his pictures of human life in the multitudinous forms of joys and ills are not depicted by a mere recluse, but by a master hand, whose sympathies have not lain dormant and untouched in the great struggle of life or in the battle of the strong against the weak: . . . gathering up life's rich experiences at every turn of the road he points out the correct path but leaves the human will to fix the choice. We commend the little work to those who want truth apart from mere sentiment."—Auckland Star, 1893.

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