New York Evening Journal: “Such pride as a man feels when he has true greatness as his guest, this newspaper feels in introducing to a million readers a man of ability hitherto unknown to them. Henry Lawson is his name.”
The Book Lover: “Any book of Lawson’s should be bought and treasured by all who care for the real beginnings of Australian literature. As a matter of fact, he is the one Australian literary product, in any distinctive sense.”
ON THE TRACK AND OVER THE SLIPRAILS.
Stories by HENRY LAWSON, Author of “While the Billy Boils,” “Joe Wilson and his Mates,” “When the World Was Wide and Other Verses,” and “Verses, Popular and Humorous.”
Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (post free 4s.).
For Cheaper Edition see Commonwealth Series, page 2.
Daily Chronicle: “Will well sustain the reputation its author has already won as the best writer of Australian short stories and sketches the literary world knows. Henry Lawson has the art, possessed in such eminent degree by Mr. J. M. Barrie, of sketching in a character and suggesting a whole life-story in a single sentence.”
Pall Mall Gazette: “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. Mr. Lawson has a master’s sense of what is dramatic, and he can bring out strong effects in a few touches. Humour and pathos, comedy and tragedy, are equally at his command.”
Glasgow Herald: “Mr. Lawson must now be regarded as facile princeps in the production of the short tale. Some of these brief and even slight sketches are veritable gems that would be spoiled by an added word, and without a word that can be looked upon as superfluous.”