Hits! Skits! and Jingles!

'Hits! Skits! and Jingles!' (1899) is the only collection of poems by English-Australian poet W. T. Goodge published in his lifetime. It was published in hardback by the Bulletin in Sydney N.S.W. in 1899

The collection includes 167 poems by the author. A note in the first edition states: "Many of these rhymes appeared in The Bulletin, The Sunday Times, and The Orange Leader."

Critical reception
A reviewer in The Truth from Sydney noted: "The little volume of verse, it would be absurd to call it poetry, which he has just published, is destined to be widely popular, for in its pages are contained many quaint conceits and merry quips, such as a people love to read—not for instruction, not for education, but for amusement, for mental recreation. Thus their publication will earn for his name and his writings an even greater share of popularity than he enjoys at present. Whether they will bring him any enduring fame is quite another question, one highly problematical. While he lives and writes, giving us new matter over which to chuckle and laugh, his book will be read and enjoyed."

In The Sydney Morning Herald a writer admired the title and called it "a book in which Mr. W. T. Goodge has gathered together some of the clever and amusing verses in which he has from time to time good-naturedly laughed at sundry men and things. He has a happy knack of seizing the humorous side of everything, and of making his readers laugh with him. He is a complete master of the tools necessary for his work, and rhymes away steadily and merrily as if it was as natural for a man to talk in verse as in prose."

Publication history
After the initial publication of this collection in 1899, it was reprinted in 1904 by the same publisher and then in 1972 by Pollard.