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 SOME EARLY RECORDS OF THE MACARTHURS OF CAMDEN, 1789–1834.


 * "No man ever entered on a better fight with his fellow citizens, with the Governors, with the British Government, with the scientists, with the judicial authorities, indeed with almost every authority that was there to be fought, than John Macarthur when he undertook singlehanded the great fight which finally established the wool industry in Australia."

LIFE OF CAPTAIN MATTHEW FLINDERS, R.N.


 * "Will take its place as one of the great biographies in our language. The inexplicable fact that hitherto no full biography of the first man to circumnavigate Australia has appeared is also a fortunate fact. Flinders has waited a century for his biographer, and it was worth this silence of a hundred years to find Ernest Scott.… And to this fervour of research must be added Ernest Scott's lucid literary style and his interest in the personal side of his subject. Equipment, style, sympathy, and his subject combine to make a brilliant achievement in biography.… A word must in mere justice be added in praise of the publishers. The appearance of the book is worthy of its contents."

LIFE OF LAPÉROUSE.

This story of Lapérouse's work as an explorer and his close association with Australia is a most important contribution to our history. The illustrations are from authentic sources and very interesting.