The first book of golf poems to follow Carnegie's Golfiana (1833). The five poems included the celebrated song 'In Praise of Gutta Percha', an innovation which William Graham found much more 'congenial' than the political revolutions in Europe: 'Of a' the changes that of late/Have shaken Europe's social state,/Let wondering politicians prate/And 'bout them mak a wark a'./A subject mair congenial here,/And dearer to a golfer's ear./I sing - the change brought round this year/By balls of gutta-percha!' Hopkinson p. 20; Murdoch 303: 'very rare'.