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PATERSON AND DALEY.
"Banjo" Paterson has given us very little
verse lately (says a Sydney paper). Of course
he has been very busy, which may account
for it, or, as sometimes happens, his Muse
may be growing cold as he gets on in years.
"Banjo" Paterson is a particularly sane
gentleman, and with the exception of a luck-
less venture as editor of the "Antipodean,"
has made few mistakes from a commercial-
literary point of view. But as he is a
solicitor by profession this is not strange.
He is still a picturesque figure in Sydney
life, and his recent trip in Africa as war
correspondent of the "Herald" did him no
harm. After M'Donald, his letters were the
best from a journalistic standpoint, whilst as
far as impartiality was concerned they were
not surpassed. He is now going for the
State Parliament, and if he puts up for a
country electorate, the fact that Kipling said
he rode like an angel may secure his election.
Two greater contrasts than Paterson and
Daley it would be impossible to imagine.
Paterson looks as if he wrote "At Dawn and
Dusk," and a stranger would swear that
Daley wrote "The Man From Snowy River."
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