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.
Author of “In the Days when the World was Wide”.