cynic's baneful teaching let your lip in scorn be curled!
'Brotherhood and Love and Honour!' is the motto for the world.'

The End.

[From the July, 1909 section of Advertisements.]

WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE,
AND OTHER VERSES.

By Henry Lawson.

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."

THE SPEAKER: "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."

LITERARY WORLD: "Not a few of the pieces have made us feel discontented
with our sober surroundings, and desirous of seeing new birds,
new landscapes, new stars; for at times the blood tingles because of
Mr. Lawson's galloping rhymes."

NEWCASTLE WEEKLY CHRONICLE: "Swinging, rhythmic verse."

WHILE THE BILLY BOILS.

By Henry Lawson.

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."

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. But the chief charm
and value of the book is its fidelity to the rough character of the scenes
from which it is drawn."

LITERATURE: "These sketches bring us into contact with one phase
of colonial life at first hand. . . . The simplicity of the narrative
gives it almost the effect of a story that is told by word of mouth."

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.
Both men have somehow gained that power of concentration
which by a few strong strokes can set place and people before you
with amazing force."

THE TIMES: "A collection of short and vigorous studies and stories
of Australian life and character. A litt