Melbourne Punch: “Often the little stories are wedges cut clean out of life, and presented with artistic truth and vivid colour.”
WHILE THE BILLY BOILS.
Stories by HENRY LAWSON, Author of “When the World Was Wide and Other Verses,” “Joe Wilson and his Mates,” “On the Track and Over the Sliprails,” and “Verses, Popular and Humorous.”
Twenty-third Thousand. With eight plates and vignette title by F. P. Mahony. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (post free 4s.).
For Cheaper Edition see Commonwealth Series, page 2.
The Academy: “A book of honest, direct, sympathetic, humorous writing about Australia from within is worth a library of travellers’ tales.... The result is a real book—a book in a hundred. His language is terse, supple, and richly idiomatic. He can tell a yarn with the best.”
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.”