Literature: “A book which Mrs. Campbell Praed assured me made her feel that all she had written of bush life was pale and ineffective.”
The Spectator: “It is strange that one we would venture to call the greatest Australian writer should be practically unknown in England. Mr. Lawson is a less experienced writer than Mr. Kipling, and more unequal, but there are two or three sketches in this volume which for vigour and truth can hold their own with even so great a rival.”
The Times: “A collection of short and vigorous studies and stories of Australian life and character. A little in Bret Harte’s manner, crossed, perhaps, with that of Guy de Maupassant.”
The Scotsman: “There is no lack of dramatic imagination in the construction of the tales; and the best of them contrive to construct a strong sensational situation in a couple of pages.”
WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OTHER VERSES.
By HENRY LAWSON, Author of “While the Billy Boils;” “Joe Wilson and his Mates,” “On the Track and Over the Sliprails,” and “Verses, Popular and Humorous.”
Eleventh Thousand. With photogravure portrait and vignette title. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 5s. (post free 5s. 5d.).
Presentation edition, French Morocco, gilt edges, 9s.
The Speaker (London): “There are poems in ‘In the Days when the World was Wide’ which are of a higher mood than any yet heard in distinctively Australian poetry.”
The Academy: “These ballads (for such they mostly are) abound in spirit and manhood, in the colour and smell of Australian soil. They deserve the popularity which they have won in Australia, and which, we trust, this edition will now give them in England.”
Newcastle Weekly Chronicle: “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.”