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.”
Tenth 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 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.”
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.”
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.”