  But what’s the use of writing ‘bush’— Though editors demand it— For city folk, and farming folk, Can never understand it. They’re blind to what the bushman sees The best with eyes shut tightest, Out where the sun is hottest and The stars are most and brightest. The crows at sunrise flopping round Where some poor life has run down; The pair of emus trotting from The lonely tank at sundown, Their snaky heads well up, and eyes Well out for man’s manoeuvres, And feathers bobbing round behind Like fringes round improvers. The swagman tramping ’cross the plain; Good Lord, there’s nothing sadder, Except the dog that slopes behind His master like a shadder; The turkey-tail to scare the flies, The water-bag and billy; The nose-bag getting cruel light, The traveller getting silly. The plain that seems to Jackaroos Like gently sloping rises, The shrubs and tufts that’s miles away But magnified in sizes; The track that seems arisen up Or else seems gently slopin’, And just a hint of kangaroos Way out across the open. The joy and hope the swagman feels Returning, after shearing, Or after six months’ tramp Out Back, He strikes the final clearing. His weary spirit breathes again, His aching legs seem limber When to the East across the plain He spots the Darling Timber! But what’s the use of writing ‘bush’— Though editors demand it— For city folk and cockatoos, They do not understand it. They’re blind to what the whaler sees The best with eyes shut tightest, Out where Australia’s widest, and The stars are most and brightest. MAY, 1902. LIST OF BOOKS THE COMMONWEALTH SERIES Crown 8vo., 1s. each (post free 1s. 3d. each).
*** For press notices of these books see the cloth-bound editions on pages 4, 5, 6, 13 and 15 of this catalogue. JOE WILSON AND HIS MATES. BY HENRY LAWSON, Author of “While the Billy Boils;” “When the World was Wide and Other Verses;” “Verses, Popular and Humorous;” “On the Track and Over the Sliprails.” Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (post free 4s.), in paper covers, 2s. 6d. (post free 3s.). The AthenÆum (London): “This is a long way the best work Mr. Lawson has yet given us. These stories are so good that (from the literary point of view, of course) one hopes they are not autobiographical. As autobiography they would be good; as pure fiction they are more of an attainment.” Pall Mall Gazette: “We can see in these rough diamonds the men who have of late so distinguished themselves at Eland’s River and elsewhere.” The Argus: “More tales of the Joe Wilson series are promised, and this will be gratifying to Mr. Lawson’s admirers, for on the whole the sketches are the best work the writer has so far accomplished.” The Academy:—“I have never read anything in modern English literature that is so absolutely democratic in tone, so much the real thing, as Joe Wilson’s Courtship. And so with all Lawson’s tales and sketches. Tolstoy and Howells, and Whitman and Kipling, and Zola and Hauptmann and Gorky have all written descriptions of ‘democratic’ life; but none of these celebrated authors, not even Maupassant himself, has so absolutely taken us inside the life as do the tales Joe Wilson’s Courtship and A Double Buggy at Lahey’s Creek, and it is this rare convincing tone of this Australian writer that gives him a great value. The most casual ‘newspapery’ and apparently artless art of this Australian writer carries with it a truer, finer, more delicate commentary on life than all the idealistic works of any of our genteel school of writers.” VERSES: POPULAR AND HUMOROUS. 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 “While the Billy Boils.” Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (post free 4s.). For Cheaper Edition see Commonwealth Series, page 2. Francis Thompson, in The Daily Chronicle: “He is a writer of strong and ringing ballad verse, who gets his blows straight in, and at his best makes them all tell. He can vignette the life he knows in a few touches, and in this book shows an increased power of selection.” Academy: “Mr. Lawson’s work should be well known to our readers; for we have urged them often enough to make acquaintance with it. He has the gift of movement, and he rarely offers a loose rhyme. Technically, short of anxious lapidary work, these verses are excellent. He varies sentiment and humour very agreeably.” 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.” 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.” 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.” Bulletin: “How graphic he is, how natural, how true, how strong.” Otago Witness: “It were well to have such books upon our shelves.... They are true history.” THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER AND OTHER VERSES. By A. B. PATERSON. Twenty-Fourth 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 Literary Year Book: “The immediate success of this book of bush ballads is without parallel in Colonial literary annals, nor can any living English or American poet boast so wide a public, always excepting Mr. Rudyard Kipling.” The Times: “At his best he compares not unfavourably with the author of ‘Barrack Room Ballads.’” Spectator: “These lines have the true lyrical cry in them. Eloquent and ardent verses.” AthenÆum: “Swinging, rattling ballads of ready humour, ready pathos, and crowding adventure.... Stirring and entertaining ballads about great rides, in which the lines gallop like the very hoofs of the horses.” Mr. A. Patchett Martin, in Literature (London): “In my opinion it is the absolutely un-English, thoroughly Australian style and character of these new bush bards which has given them such immediate popularity, such wide vogue, among all classes of the rising native generation.” London: Macmillan & Co., Limited. THE POETICAL WORKS OF BRUNTON STEPHENS. New edition, with photogravure portrait. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 5s. Sydney Morning Herald (N.S.W.): “‘The Poetical Works of Brunton Stephens,’ as now published by Messrs. Angus and Robertson, is a book which every Australian should have on his bookshelves, whether these bookshelves cover walls or are merely the small collection which the man of taste, however shrunken his purse, is bound to make. Brunton Stephens deserves his place in even the smallest of collections. The chief of Australian poets he has contributed to English literature work of distinguished merit. He is many-sided, embracing all sorts and conditions of men and things.” The Melbourne Argus: “Mr. Brunton Stephens has for some years enjoyed an established reputation as one of the best among the small and select cluster of Australian poets.... Mr. Stephens is specially favoured, in that he not only has at command a vein of true pathos, but he has moments of real humour. In more than one poem, too, he has made good his right to be regarded as the poet of brotherhood and the prophet of federation.” The Melbourne Age: “It is certainly one of the happiest of his efforts, and exhibits alike his copious vocabulary and his mastery of a most attractive form of metre.... A poet both in thought and feeling.” Newcastle (N.S.W.) Morning Herald: “Of the rapidly lengthening roll of Australian writers, none deserves a higher place than Brunton Stephens. For more than a generation he has charmed his countrymen with his exquisite verse.” RHYMES FROM THE MINES AND OTHER LINES. By EDWARD DYSON, Author of “A Golden Shanty.” Second 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: “Here from within we have the Australian miner complete: the young miner, the old miner, the miner in luck, and the miner out of it, the miner in love, and the miner in peril. Mr. Dyson knows it all.” THE MUTINEER. A Romance of Pitcairn Island. By LOUIS BECKE AND WALTER JEFFERY. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (post free 4s.). FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE. By MARCUS CLARKE. With a Memoir of the Author, by A. B. Paterson, Portrait of the Author, Map of Eagle Hawk Neck and the vicinity, and 14 full-page views of places mentioned in the book. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d. (post free 4s.). LOVE AND LONGITUDE. A Story of the Pacific in the Year 1900. By R. SCOT SKIRVING. With 8 plates, crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 5s. (post free 5s. 6d.). Daily Telegraph: “A capital story of love and adventure in the Pacific.... Seafaring folk will find much to interest them particularly in ‘Love and Longitude,’ and general readers will admire it for its bright narrative.” OUR ARMY IN SOUTH AFRICA. By R. SCOT SKIRVING, late Consulting Surgeon to the Australian Contingents. Crown 8vo, boards, 2s. (post free 2s. 2d.). THE SPIRIT OF THE BUSH FIRE AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN FAIRY TALES. By J. M. WHITFELD. Second Thousand. With 32 illustrations by G. W. Lambert. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. (post free 3s.). Sydney Morning Herald: “It is frankly written for the young folks. The youngster will find a delight in Miss Whitfeld’s marvellous company.” TEENS. A Story of Australian Schoolgirls. By LOUISE MACK. Fourth Thousand. With 14 full-page illustrations by F. P. Mahony. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. Sydney Morning Herald: “Ought to be welcome to all who feel the responsibility of choosing the reading books of the young ... its gaiety, impulsiveness, and youthfulness will charm them.” Sydney Daily Telegraph: “Nothing could be more natural, more sympathetic.” The Australasian: “‘Teens’ is a pleasantly-written story, very suitable for a present or a school prize.” Bulletin: “It is written so well that it could not be written better.” GIRLS TOGETHER. A Sequel to “Teens.” By LOUISE MACK. Third Thousand. Illustrated by G. W. Lambert. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. Sydney Morning Herald: “‘Girls Together’ should be in the library of every girl who likes a pleasant story of real life.... Older people will read it for its bright touches of human nature.” Queenslander: “A story told in a dainty style that makes it attractive to all. It is fresh, bright, and cheery, and well worth a place on any Australian bookshelf.” THE ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH. By Sir JOHN QUICK AND R. R. GARRAN, C.M.G. Royal 8vo, cloth gilt, 21s. The Times: “The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth is a monument of industry.... Dr. Quick and Mr. Garran have collected, with patience and enthusiasm, every sort of information, legal and historical, which can throw light on the new measure. The book has evidently been a labour of love.” HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN BUSHRANGING. By CHARLES WHITE. To be completed in two vols. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. each. [Vol. I. now ready. For Cheaper Edition see Commonwealth Series, page 2. Press Notices of Volume I. Year Book of Australia: “There is ‘romance’ enough about it to make it of permanent interest as a peculiar and most remarkable stage in our social history.” Queenslander: “Mr. White has supplied material enough for twenty such novels as ‘Robbery Under Arms.” THE GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE. A Handbook to the History of Greater Britain. By Arthur W. JOSE, Author of “A Short History of Australasia.” Second Edition. With 14 Maps. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 5s. (post free 5s. 6d.) Morning Post: “This book is published in Sydney, but it deserves to be circulated throughout the United Kingdom. The picture of the fashion in which British enterprise made its way from settlement to settlement has never been drawn more vividly than in these pages. Mr. Jose’s style is crisp and pleasant, now and then even rising to eloquence on his grand theme. His book deserves wide popularity, and it has the rare merit of being so written as to be attractive alike to the young student and to the mature man of letters.” Literature: “He has studied thoroughly, and writes vigorously.... Admirably done.... We commend it to Britons the world over.” Saturday Review: “He writes Imperially; he also often writes sympathetically.... We cannot close Mr. Jose’s creditable account of our misdoings without a glow of national pride.” Yorkshire Post: “A brighter short history we do not know, and this book deserves for the matter and the manner of it to be as well known as Mr. McCarthy’s ‘History of Our Own Times.’” The Scotsman: “This admirable work is a solid octavo of more than 400 pages. It is a thoughtful, well-written, and well-arranged history. There are fourteen excellent maps to illustrate the text.” HISTORY OF AUSTRALASIA. From the Earliest Times to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth. By ARTHUR W. JOSE, Author of “The Growth of the Empire.” The chapter on Federation revised by R. R. Garran, C.M.G. With 6 maps and 64 portraits and illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth, 1s. 6d. (post free 1s. 10d.). For Cheaper Edition see Commonwealth Series, page 2. The Book Lover: “The ignorance of the average Australian youth about the brief history of his native land is often deplorable.... ‘A Short History of Australasia,’ by Arthur W. Jose, just provides the thing wanted. Mr. Jose’s previous historical work was most favourably received in England, and this story of our land is capitally done. It is not too long, and it is brightly written. Its value is considerably enhanced by the useful maps and interesting illustrations. A very good book to give to a boy.” Victorian Education Gazette: “The language is graphic and simple, and there is much evidence of careful work and acquaintance with original documents, which give the reader confidence in the accuracy of the details. The low price of the book leaves young Australians no excuse for remaining in ignorance of the history of their native land.” Town and Country Journal: “His language is graphic and simple, and he has maintained the unity and continuity of the story of events despite the necessity of following the subject along the seven branches corresponding with the seven separate colonies.” THE GEOLOGY OF SYDNEY AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS. A Popular Introduction to the Study of Australian Geology. By Rev. J. MILNE CURRAN, Lecturer in Chemistry and Geology, Technical College, Sydney. Second Edition. With a Glossary of Scientific terms, a Reference List of commonly-occurring Fossils, 2 coloured maps, and 83 illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 6s. (post free 6s. 6d.). Nature: “This is, strictly speaking, an elementary manual of geology. The general plan of the work is good; the book is well printed and illustrated with maps, photographic pictures of rock structure and scenery, and figures of fossils and rock sections.” Saturday Review: “His style is animated and inspiring, or clear and precise, as occasion demands. The people of Sydney are to be congratulated on the existence of such a guide to their beautiful country.” Literary World: “We can heartily recommend the book as a very interesting one, written in a much more readable style than is usual in works of this kind.” South Australian Register: “Mr. Curran has extracted a charming narrative of the earth’s history out of the prosaic stone. Though he has selected Sydney rocks for his text, his discourse is interestingly Australian.” AUSTRALIAN CAVALRY. The N.S.W. Lancer Regiment and the First Australian Horse. By FRANK WILKINSON, War Correspondent, Sydney Daily Telegraph. With one coloured and eight other full-page plates. Crown 4to, boards, 2s. (post free 2s. 4d.) SIMPLE TESTS FOR MINERALS; Or, Every Man his Own Analyst. By JOSEPH CAMPBELL, M.A., F.G.S., M.I.M.E. Fourth Edition, revised and enlarged (completing the ninth thousand). With illustrations. Cloth, round corners, 3s. 6d. (post free 38. 9d.). THE KINGSWOOD COOKERY BOOK. By Mrs. WICKEN, M.C.A., Late Teacher of Cookery, Technical College, Sydney. Fifth edition, revised, completing the Nineteenth Thousand. 382 pages, crown 8vo, paper cover, 1s; cloth, 1s. 6d. (postage 4d.). PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN’S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION COOKERY BOOK. Seventh Edition, enlarged, completing the 45th Thousand. Crown 8vo., cloth, 1s. (post free 1s. 2d.). THE METRIC SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, AND DECIMAL COINAGE. By J. M. TAYLOR, M.A., LL.B. With Introductory Notes on the nature of Decimals, and contracted methods for the Multiplication and Division of Decimals. Crown 8vo, 6d. (post free 7d.). N.S.W. 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Educational Gazette: “The most complete and logical discussion of this part of the works of the great geometer that we have seen. An unusual amount of care has been bestowed on the initiatory stages, the definitions, axioms, and postulates being treated with commendable fulness.... The brevity, simplicity, and perspicuity of his methods will appeal forcibly to students.... Mr. Maclardy adheres to the plan of simplifying the proofs and reducing the verbiage to a minimum, and has added a contribution to mathematical literature which we regard as indispensable.” Victorian Educational Gazette: “Among the legion of editions of Euclid, Mr. Maclardy’s takes an honourable place. There are many features that are the result of the author’s long experience as a lecturer and examiner in mathematics. He has evidently taken a pride in making his work as perfect as possible.” ENGLISH GRAMMAR, COMPOSITION, AND PRÉCIS WRITING. For Use by Candidates for University and Public Service Exams By JAMES CONWAY, Headmaster at Cleveland-street Superior Public School, Sydney. Prescribed by the Department of Public Instruction, N.S.W., for First and Second Class Teachers’ Certificate Examinations. New edition, revised and enlarged. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (post free 3s. 10d.). Sydney Morning Herald: “To its concise and admirable arrangement of rules and definitions, which holds good wherever the English language is spoken or written, is added special treatment of special difficulties. Mr. Conway adopts the excellent plan of taking certain papers, and of answering the questions in detail.... Should be in the hands of every teacher.” Victorian Educational News: “A book which we can heartily recommend as the most suitable we have yet met with to place in the hands of students for our intermediate examinations, and also for matriculation, pupil teachers’ and certificate of competency examinations. We should be glad to see the work set down in the syllabus of the Department so that it would reach the hands of all the students and teachers engaged in studying the subject in our State schools.” A SMALLER ENGLISH GRAMMAR, COMPOSITION, AND PRÉCIS WRITING. By JAMES CONWAY. Prescribed by the Department of Public Instruction, N.S.W., for Third Class and Pupil Teachers’ Examinations. New edition, revised and enlarged. Crown 8vo, cloth, 1s. 6d. (post free 1s. 9d.). N.S.W. Educational Gazette: “The abridgment is very well done. One recognises the hand of a man who has had long experience of the difficulties of this subject.” GEOGRAPHY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. By J. M. TAYLOR, M.A., LL.B. New Edition, revised. With 37 illustrations and 6 folding maps. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (post free 3s. 10d.). Sydney Morning Herald: “Something more than a school book; it is an approach to an ideal geography.” Review of Reviews: “It makes a very attractive handbook. Its geography is up to date; it is not overburdened with details, and it is richly illustrated with geological diagrams and photographs of scenery reproduced with happy skill.” CAUSERIES FAMILIÈRES; OR, FRIENDLY CHATS. A Simple and Deductive French Course. By Mrs. S. C. Boyd. Prescribed for use in schools by the Department of Public Instruction, New South Wales. Pupils’ Edition, containing all that need be in the hands of the learner. Crown 8vo, cloth, limp, 1s. 6d. (post free 1s. 8d.). Teachers’ Edition, containing grammatical summaries, exercises, a full treatise on pronunciation, French-English and English-French Vocabulary, and other matter for the use of the teacher or of a student without a master. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (post free, 3s. 10d.). The London Spectator: “A most excellent and practical little volume, evidently the work of a trained teacher. It combines admirably and in an entertaining form the advantages of the conversational with those of the grammatical method of learning a language.” AUSTRALIAN SONGS FOR AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN. By Mrs. MAYBANKE ANDERSON. All the songs are set to music, while to some of them appropriate calisthenic exercises are given. Demy 4to, picture cover, 1s. THE AUSTRALIAN OBJECT LESSON BOOK. Part I.—For Infant and Junior Classes. With 43 illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.; paper cover, 2s. 6d. (postage, 4d.). N.S.W. Educational Gazette: “Mr. Wiley has wisely adopted the plan of utilising the services of specialists. The series is remarkably complete, and includes almost everything with which the little learners ought to be made familiar. Throughout the whole series the lessons have been selected with judgment and with a due appreciation of the capacity of the pupils for whose use they are intended.” THE AUSTRALIAN OBJECT LESSON BOOK. Part II.—For advanced classes. With 113 illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.; paper cover, 2s. 6d. (postage 4d.). Victorian Education Gazette: “Mr. Wiley and his colleagues have provided a storehouse of useful information on a great number of topics that can be taken up in any Australian school.” N.S.W. Educational Gazette: “The Australian Object Lesson Book is evidently the result of infinite patience and deep research on the part of its compiler, who is also to be commended for the admirable arrangement of his matter.” A NEW BOOK OF SONGS FOR SCHOOLS AND SINGING CLASSES. By HUGO ALPEN, Superintendent of Music, Department of Public Instruction, New South Wales. 8vo, paper cover. 1s. (post free 1s. 2d.). THE AUSTRALIAN PROGRESSIVE SONGSTER. By S. McBurney, Mus. Doc., Fellow T.S.F. College. Containing graded Songs, Rounds and Exercises in Staff Notation, Tonic Sol-fa and Numerals, with Musical Theory. Price, 6d. each part; combined, 1s. (postage 1d. each part). No. 1.—For Junior Classes. No. 2.—For Senior Classes. THE AUSTRALIAN LETTERING BOOK. Containing the Alphabets most useful in Mapping, Exercise Headings, &c. with practical applications, Easy Scrolls, Flourishes, Borders, Corners, Rulings, &c. Second Edition. New Edition, revised and enlarged, cloth limp, 6d. (post free 7d.). GEOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. With Definitions of Geographical Terms. Second Edition, with 8 maps and 19 illustrations. 64 pages. 6d. (post free 7d.). GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE, ASIA AND AMERICA. Second Edition, with 14 relief and other maps, and 18 illustrations of transcontinental views, distribution of animals, &c. 84 pages. 6d. (post free 7d.). GEOGRAPHY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. With five folding maps. 48 pages. 6d. (post free 7d.). GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA. With five maps in relief, &c. 64 pages. 6d. (post free 7d.). AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL SERIES. Grammar and Derivation Book. 64 pages. 2d. Test Exercises in Grammar for 3rd Class, 1st Year. 64 pages. 2d. Test Exercises in Grammar for 3rd Class, 2nd Year. 64 pages. 2d. 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With the Arithmetic Papers set at the Sydney University Junior, the Public Service, the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, and the Bankers’ Institute Examinations to 1900, &c. 112 pages. 4d. Answers, 4d. Algebra. Part I. 49 pages. 2d. Answers, 2d. Algebra. Part II. To Quadratic Equations. Contains over twelve hundred Exercises, including the University Junior, the Public Service, the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, and the Bankers’ Institute Examination Papers to 1900, &c. 112 pages. 4d. Answers, 4d. THE AUSTRALASIAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL SERIES. History of Australia and New Zealand for Catholic Schools, 117 pages. 4d. Pupil’s Companion to the Australian Catholic First Reader, 32 pages. 1d. Pupil’s Companion to the Australian Catholic Second Reader, 64 pages. 2d. Pupil’s Companion to the Australian Catholic Third Reader, 112 pages. 3d. Pupil’s Companion to the Australian Catholic Fourth Reader, 160 pages. 4d. THE AUSTRALIAN DRAWING BOOK. By F. W. WOODHOUSE, Superintendent of Drawing, Department of Public Instruction, New South Wales. Approved by the Department of Public Instruction for use in the Public Schools of New South Wales. Price, 3d. each. No. 1A—Elementary, Straight Lines, Curves and Simple Figures. Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4—Graduated Elementary Freehand, Regular Forms, Simple Designs, &c. Nos. 5 and 6—Foliage, Flowers, Ornaments, Vase Forms, &c. No. 7—Book of Blank Pages. N.S.W. Educational Gazette: “This series of drawing books has been arranged by the Superintendent of Drawing for the purpose of enabling teachers and pupils to meet fully the requirements of the Public School Syllabus of 1899. It consists of seven numbers, designed for the third, fourth and fifth classes respectively, and there is also a book of blank pages (No. 7). Nos. 1 to 4 treat of elementary freehand, simple designs, pattern drawing, &c.; Nos. 5 and 6 of foliage, flowers and ornaments. The copies are excellently designed and executed, and carefully graduated, and the books are printed on superior drawing paper. ‘The Australian Drawing Books’ should be used in every public school in the colony, first on account of their intrinsic merit, and secondly because they are the only books that accurately fit our standard.” THE AUSTRALIAN COPY BOOK. Approved by the Departments of Public Instruction in New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania, by the Public Service Board of New South Wales, and by the Chief Inspector of Catholic Schools. Price, 2d. each. No. 1, Initiatory, Short Letters, Short Words; 2, Initiatory, Long Letters, Words; 3, Text, Capitals, Longer Words; 4, Half-Text, Short Sentences; 5, Intermediate, Australian and Geographical Sentences; 6, Small Hand, Double Ruling, Australian and Geographical Sentences, Prefixes and Examples; 6A, Text, Half-Text, Intermediate, Small Hand; 7, Small Hand, Single Ruling, Maxims, Quotations, Proverbs; 8, Advanced Small Hand, Abbreviations and Contractions commonly met with; 9, Commercial Terms and Forms, Addresses; 10, Commercial Forms, Correspondence, Addresses; 11, Plain and Ornamental Lettering, Mapping, Flourishes, &c. Numerals are given in each number. THE AUSTRALIAN PUPIL TEACHERS’ COPY BOOK. A selection of pages from the Australian Copy Book, arranged for use of Pupil Teachers. 48 pages. Price, 6d. ANGUS AND ROBERTSON’S PENCIL COPY BOOK. Approved by the N.S.W. Department of Public Instruction. In nine numbers. 1d. each. No. 1, Initiatory lines, curves, letters, figures; 2 and 3, Short letters, easy combinations, figures; 4, Long letters, short words, figures; 5, Long letters, words, figures; 6, 7, and 8, Capitals, words, figures; 9, Short sentences, figures. COTTERILL’S GUIDES TO THE MUSICAL EXAMINATIONS Held by the N.S.W. Department of Public Instruction for Teachers and Pupil Teachers in all grades. Part 1. The papers set in 1898, 1899, and 1900, and Answers thereto. Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. (post free 2s. 2d) Part 2. The Papers set in 1901, and Answers thereto. Crown 8vo, sewn, 1s. (post free 1s. 1d.). N.S.W. Educational Gazette: “We would earnestly urge upon teachers and pupil teachers intending to sit for examination the wisdom of mastering the principles so clearly enunciated in these valuable textbooks. The work has been excellently done by Mr. G. T. Cotterill, of the Paddington Superior Public School; every question has been fully and clearly answered, difficulties have been explained with the skill of an experienced teacher, and the questions on harmony in the first and second class papers have been discussed with a fulness and lucidity that we look for in vain in the ordinary manuals.” GUIDES TO THE NEW SOUTH WALES PUBLIC SERVICE EXAMINATIONS. No. I.—Containing the Papers set in March, 1899 and Keys thereto, together with the Regulations and Hints on suitable Text-books. Cheaper edition. 8vo., paper cover, 1s. (post free 1s. 1d.). No. II.—Containing the Papers set in August, 1900 and Keys thereto, together with the revised Regulations and Hints on suitable Text-books, and the Papers set at the examination held in December, 1899. Cheaper edition. 8vo, paper cover, 1s. (post free 1s. 1d.). CALENDAR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY. 8vo, linen, 2s. 6d.; paper cover, 1s. (postage 8d.). MANUAL OF PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS HELD BY THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY. 8vo., paper cover, 1s. (post free 1s. 3d.). HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS OF INFANT SCHOOLS AND JUNIOR CLASSES. With colour chart nine colours and upwards of 100 illus. Cr. 8vo, cloth, 1s. 6d. (post free 1s. 8d.) QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; Notes and Tables for the Use of Students. By Rev. J. MILNE CURRAN, Lecturer in Chemistry and Geology, Technical College, Sydney, Author of “The Geology of Sydney and the Blue Mountains.” With illustrations. Demy 8vo, cloth gilt, 4s. 6d. (post free 5s.). ANNOUNCEMENTS HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN BUSHRANGING. By CHARLES WHITE. Vol. II—1863 to 1878, illustrated, crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. [Shortly.] EUCLID, BOOKS V., VI. AND XI. By J. D. ST. CLAIR MACLARDY, M.A., Lecturer at the Training Colleges, and Examiner to the New South Wales Department of Public Instruction. Crown 8vo, cloth. [Shortly.] THE POSSIBILITY OF A SCIENCE OF CASUISTRY. By ERNEST NORTHCROFT MERRINGTON, B.A. Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d. 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