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Over the Sliprails by Henry Lawson
page 163 of 169 (96%)
Ninth Thousand. With photogravure portrait and vignette title.
Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt top, 5s.; post free, 5s. 5d.


Mr. R. Le Gallienne, in The Idler: "A striking volume of ballad poetry.
A volume to console one for the tantalising postponement of Mr. Kipling's
promised volume of sea ballads."

Weekly Chronicle, Newcastle (Eng.): "Swinging, rhythmic verse."

Sydney Morning Herald: "The verses have natural vigour,
the writer has a rough, true faculty of characterisation,
and the book is racy of the soil from cover to cover."

Melbourne Age: "`In the Days when the World was Wide and Other Verses',
by Henry Lawson, is poetry, and some of it poetry of a very high order."

Otago Witness: "It were well to have such books upon our shelves . . .
they are true History."

New Zealand Herald: "There is a heart-stirring ring about the verses."

Bulletin: "How graphic he is, how natural, how true, how strong."



While the Billy Boils: Australian Stories.

By Henry Lawson.

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