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ROBBERY UNDER ARMS. A STORY OF LIFE AND ADVENTURE IN THE BUSH AND IN THE GOLD-FIELDS OF AUSTRALIA. GUARDIAN—"A singularly spirited and stirring tale of Australian life, chiefly in the remoter settlements.... Altogether it is a capital story, full of wild adventure and startling incidents, and told with a genuine simplicity and quiet appearance of truth, as if the writer were really drawing upon his memory rather than his imagination." SPECTATOR—"We have nothing but praise for this story. Of adventure of the most stirring kind there is, as we have said, abundance. But there is more than this. The characters are drawn with great skill. Every one of the gang of bushrangers is strongly individualised. A book of no common literary force." THE MINER'S RIGHT. A TALE OF THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD-FIELDS. ATHENÆUM—"The picture is unquestionably interesting, thanks to the very detail and fidelity which tend to qualify its attractiveness for those who like excitement and incident before anything else." WORLD—"Full of good passages, passages abounding in vivacity, in the colour and play of life." THE SQUATTER'S DREAM. SATURDAY REVIEW—"It is not often that stories of colonial life are so interesting as Mr. Boldrewood's Squatter's Dream. There is enough story in the book to give connected interest to the various incidents, and these are all told with considerable spirit, and at times picturesqueness." FIELD—"The details are filled in by a hand evidently well conversant with his subject, and everything is ben trovato, if not actually true. A perusal of these cheerfully-written pages will probably give a better idea of realities of Australian life than could be obtained from many more pretentious works." A SYDNEY-SIDE SAXON. GLASGOW HERALD—"The interest never flags, and altogether A Sydney-Side Saxon is a really refreshing book." ANTI-JACOBIN—"Thoroughly well worth reading.... A clever book, admirably written.... Brisk in incident, truthful and lifelike in character.... Beyond and above all it has that stimulating hygienic quality, that cheerful, unconscious healthfulness, which makes a story like Robinson Crusoe or The Vicar of Wakefield so unspeakably refreshing after a course of even good contemporary fiction." A COLONIAL REFORMER. GLASGOW HERALD—"One of the most interesting books about Australia we have ever read." SATURDAY REVIEW—"Mr. Boldrewood can tell what he knows with great point and vigour, and there is no better reading than the adventurous parts of his books."
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