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 NOVELS BY ROLF BOLDREWOOD.

ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

A STORY OF LIFE AND ADVENTURE IN THE BUSH AND IN THE GOLD-FIELDS OF AUSTRALIA.

A New Edition. Crown 8vo. $1.25.

GUARDIAN— "A singularly spirited and stirring tale of Australian life, chiefly in the remoter settlements.... Altogether it is a capital story, full of wild adventure and startling incidents, and told with a genuine simplicity and quiet appearance of truth, as if the writer were really drawing upon his memory rather than his imagination."

SPECTATOR—"We have nothing but praise for this story. Of adventure of the most stirring kind there is, as we have said, abundance. But there is more than this. The characters are drawn with great skill. Every one of the gang of bushrangers is strongly individualised. This is a book of no common literary force."

WORLD—"It shows, we hope, no preposterous ignorance to confess that Rolf Boldrewood is a name unknown to us. But whoever he may be, it is certain that Rolf Boldrewood has in 'Robbery under Arms' done an uncommonly good thing.... The book, in short, has the natural touch, both of place and person, on every page."

MORNING POST—"To lovers of what may be termed legitimate fiction, i.e. of fiction which neither seeks to solve social problems nor penetrate the 'unseen' this 'Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Gold-fields of Australia' will prove, an absolute godsend.... As a picture of the earlier days of our Australian Colonies, and as an absorbing story, 'Robbery under Arms' has few equals."

GRAPHIC—"That Mr. Boldrewood knows his subject through and through is as certain as his picture of the breaking-out of the first gold fever in Australia is the best ever written."

THE SQUATTER'S DREAM.

New Edition. Crown 8vo. $1.25.

THE MINER'S RIGHT.

A TALE OF THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD-FIELDS.

New Edition. Grown 8vo. $1.25.

ATHENÆUM—"It is distinguished by very much the same qualities as those which singled out the earlier narrative from its contemporaries.... The picture is unquestionably interesting, thanks to the very detail and fidelity which tend to qualify its attractiveness for those who like excitement and incident before everything else."

WORLD—"Full of good passages, passages abounding in vivacity, in the colour and play of life.... The pith of the book lies in its singularly fresh and vivid pictures of the humours of the gold-fields,—tragic humours enough they are, too, here and again...."

MANCHESTER EXAMINER—" The characters are sketched with real life and picturesqueness. Mr. Boldrewood accomplishes the very difficult feat of enabling his readers not only to understand the bewildering complexities of mining law, but to he interested in the situations which arise out of their operation, while his fund of incident seems to be large enough to meet all the demands made upon it. Indeed, the book is lively and readable from first to last."

A COLONIAL REFORMER.

Grown 8vo. |1.25.

ATHENÆUM—"A series of natural and entertaining pictures of Australian life, which are, above all things, readable."

GLASGOW HERALD—" One of the most interesting books about Australia we have ever read."

SATURDAY REVIEW— "Mr. Boldrewood can tell what he knows with great point and vigour, and there is no better reading than the adventurous parts of his hooks."

MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON.