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 JOE WILSON AND HIS MATES.

(London): "This is a long way the best work Mr. Lawson has yet given us. These stories are so good that (from the literary point of view of course) one hopes they are not autobiographical. As autobiography they would be good, as pure fiction they are more of an attainment."

THE RISING OF THE COURT, AND OTHER SKETCHES IN PROSE AND VERSE.


 * "These stories show Lawson at his best, and Lawson at his best is not to be beaten by short story writers in current literature."

(Christchurch): "No one else could have written these sketches. Lawson has so much feeling and so much humour."

AN OUTBACK MARRIAGE: A Story of Australian Life.


 * "The chief virtue of the book lies in its fresh and vivid presentment of the wild life and the picturesque manners of the Australian bush, while in form and style it claims recognition as a work of considerable literary distinction."


 * "The whole tone of the book is fresh and breezy…Altogether, this is a distinctly interesting story."


 * "…will stand comparison with works of fiction produced in any part of the English-speaking world."