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WHILE THE BILLY BOILS.


 * "A book of honest, direct, sympathetic, humorous writing about Australia from within is worth a library of travellers' tales…The result is a real book―a book in a hundred. His language is terse, supple, and richly idiomatic. He can tell a yarn with the best."

ON THE TRACK AND OVER THE SLIPRAILS.


 * "Will well sustain the reputation its author has already won as the best writer of Australian short stories and sketches the literary world knows."


 * "The volume now received will do much to enhance the author's reputation. There is all the quiet irresistible humour of Dickens in the description of 'The Darling River,' and the creator of 'Truthful James' never did anything better in the way of character sketches than Steelman and Mitchell."

 CHILDREN OF THE BUSH.


 * "These stories are for the most part episodes which appear to have been taken direct from life.…and Mr. Lawson contrives to make them wonderfully vivid…Mr. Lawson's new stories are as good as his old ones, and higher praise they could not get."


 * "These stories are the real Australia, written by the foremost living Australian author…Lawson's genius remains as vivid and human as when he first boiled his literary billy."