"The Blind Crowder."

The above is the title of a slim volume that has recently been published by the father of Eric Lee Palmer, one of Victoria's most gifted sons. The booklet contains the one-act play from which the title is taken, some few songs, appreciations of the poet and his work written by people with whom he was connected, and a portrait.

A Palmer Memorial Library has already been established at Victoria College, and eventually it is hoped that some of his greater works—"The Black Ship," "The Peasant," and "The Zeitgliste"—will be published.

The following is an extract from a critical article on the poet:—"This (The Black Ship') is undoubtedly the greatest poetical work yet produced in New Zealand; one might venture to prophesy that its author, had he lived another twenty years, would have established himself as the greatest English-writing poet outside Great Britain."

Any students or friends of E. L. Palmer who would like a copy of "The Blind Crowder" please leave a note in the rack addressed to E. H. McCormick.

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