SOME LITERARY REMAINS.
The late Mr. Palmer had some skill as a versifier, although the
exigencies of his arduous life in the pioneering days would not permit
of his adding the extra finish to the lines which, more often than not,
were as he himself phrased it, "strung together as the result of
sleepless hours passed during the nights while camping out on a large
cattle run in the west." A few of his efforts are here preserved:--
THE GIDYA TREE.
(Acacia Homoeophylla.)
Where roll the great plains to the west,
Near a homestead pleasant to see,
With far-stretching limbs and spreading crest,
Grows a grand old acacia tree.
Nor winter winds, nor sun's fierce heat
Can change its staunch solidity,
For many a century's storms have beat
On this great, grey, gidya tree.
At early morn, their joyous lay,
The butcher-birds sing in melody.
And merrily pass the hours away,
All under the gidya tree.
The grey doves in its shade rejoice,
From eyes of kites they're free,
And call their loves in plaintive voice,
From under the gidya tree.
In scarlet bloom, the mistletoe swings,
From its branches droopingly;
And all around its odour flings,
Right under the gidya tree.
The milk-plant twines its length along,
As if 'twould hidden be;
Creeping its way 'mong the leaves so strong,
Of this ancient gidya tree.
The panting cattle gladly come,
And sheltered fain would be,
From burning heat of noonday sun,
Camped under the gidya tree.
Like the shade from a great rock cast
O'er the land so soothing lay;
All Nature seeks some rest at last,
Far under the gidya tree.
When life is o'er and troubles past,
How sweet that rest will be,
For weary ones who come at last,
Safe under the gidya tree.
"Nunc dimittis," my work is done,
And soon from care set free;
That peace I wish will soon be won,
Deep under the gidya tree.
MY OLD STOCK HORSE.
(Norman.)
"Norman," a large bay horse, bred on Conobie about 1870, broken in three
or four years after, and worked on till twenty-four or twenty-five years
old as a stock horse, and then nearly as good and safe to ride as ever.
A surer, better stock horse was never ridden, and always ridden by the
writer.
I have a friend--I've proved him so
By many a task and token;
I've ridden him long and found him true,
Since first that he was broken.
For twenty years we both have been
In storm and sunny weather,
And many a thousand miles we've seen,
Just he and I together.
From Cooktown's breezy seaborn site,
By Palmer's golden river;
Where Mitchell's waters clear and bright,
Roll on their course for ever.
Across the Lynd and Gilbert's sands,
And many a rocky river;
Through trackless desert, forest lands,
We've journeyed oft together.
Then on the great grey plains so vast,
Where the sun's rays dance and quiver,
Through scorching heat and south-east blast,
We've toiled on Flinders River.
Through tangled scrubs and broken ground,
We have often had to scramble;
To wheel the cunning brumbie's round,
From where they love to ramble.
Old Norman ne'er was known to fail,
Or in the camp to falter,
And just as sound to-day and hale,
As when he first wore halter.
Good horse, you well have earned your rest,
Your mustering days are over;
For all your time you'll have the best,
And pass your life in clover.
The Indian's simple faith is plain,
That in the land of shadows,
He'll have his faithful dog again
To hunt in misty meadows.
And should a steed a soul attain,
This surely then will follow--
I'll meet that grand old horse again,
And hail him "Good old fellow!"
Conobie, October 8th, 1894.
THE WATCHER.
The night wind keen and chill is creeping
Across the plains with moaning sound;
A rider there his watch is keeping,
Where cattle camp in peace around.
The Southern Cross shines clear and bright,
And marks the hour that speeds;
While Nature's sounds, borne on the night,
Accustomed to, he little heeds.
The hooting of the mopoke owl
Floats on the midnight air;
The prowling dingoe's dismal howl
Is chorused wide and far.
The curlew's cry, so wild and shrill,
Pierces the air with startling sound;
While o'er the waters calm and still,
The wild fowl chase each other round.
He cares not for the keen wind cold,
Nor for the hour that's past;
For thoughts of other days still hold
His memory to the last.
He minds him of his youth time ever,
And the farm where he was born;
The meadows green, and the flowing river,
And the fields of tasselled corn.
The sweet perfume of the apple's bloom,
The sight of the mountain's blue,
The drooping willows and yellow broom,
And waving wheatfields too.
He sees the cows from the pasture land,
As down the lane they come,
And sister Nell, with pail in hand,
To wait their coming home.
He sees again his father ploughing,
In the old-fashioned sturdy way,
He hears again the cock's shrill crowing,
That waked him oft at break of day.
His memory takes him back apace,
To early manhood's prime,
When a gentle voice and pleasant face
Impressed him for all time.
For loving lass and wandering lad,
Since ever the world began,
Though parted in grief, the love they had,
Will come to each again.
His wayward life he ponders on
With anguish deep and keen,
And as the past he looks upon,
Sadly thinks--it might have been.
But vain regrets will help him not.
Nor vanished hopes renew;
He only knows his present lot
Has duties stern to do.
He cares not now whate'er befalls,
His faith he still will keep;
The next on watch in turn he calls,
And folds himself in sleep.
Conobie, June 21st, 1894.
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LIST OF BOOKS
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THE COMMONWEALTH SERIES
Crown 8vo., 1s. each (_post free 1s. 3d. each_).
=ON THE TRACK: New Stories.= _By HENRY LAWSON_
=OVER THE SLIPRAILS: New Stories.= _By H. LAWSON_
=POPULAR VERSES.= _By HENRY LAWSON_
_Now first published in book form._
=HUMOROUS VERSES.= _By HENRY LAWSON_
_Now first published in book form._
=WHILE THE BILLY BOILS: Australian Stories.=
=First Series.= _By HENRY LAWSON_
=WHILE THE BILLY BOILS: Australian Stories.=
=Second Series.= _By HENRY LAWSON_
=MY CHINEE COOK AND OTHER HUMOROUS VERSES.= _By BRUNTON STEPHENS_
=HISTORY OF AUSTRALASIA: From the Earliest Times
to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth. _By A. W. JOSE_
=HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN BUSHRANGING.= _By CHARLES WHITE_
Part I.--THE EARLY DAYS.
Part II.--1850 to 1862.
Part III.--1863 to 1869.
Part IV.--1869 to 1878.
[Symbol: asterism] For press notices of these books see the
cloth-bound editions on pages 4, 5, 6, 9 and 13 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 Athenaeum= (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."
Eleventh 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 Speaker= (LONDON): "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."
=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."
=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-Seventh 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."
=Athenaeum:= "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.
_See also Commonwealth Series, page 2._
=Sydney Morning Herald (N.S.W.):= "'The Poetical Works of Brunton
Stephens' 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._
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._)
RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE AND OTHER VERSES.
By A. B. PATERSON.
This is issued uniform with the Snowy River Series at 5s.
The contents are quite up to the standard of "The Man
from Snowy River," and as the demand is certain to be
very large we would ask the Trade to place their orders
at once.
FLOOD-TIDE.
By SARAH P. McL. GREENE, Author of "Vesty of the Basins,"
&c.
Cloth, 3s. 6d.; paper, 2s. 6d.
=The Argus= (ALBANY, N.Y.): "'Flood-Tide' is a strong dramatic story of
primitive life in a hamlet coast town in Maine. It is a study of human
nature set in primitive surroundings, and is full of the pathos and
humour of life's little comedies. 'Flood-Tide' is full of 'characters.'
There is Johnny Dinsmore, whose wayward humours and mischievous pranks
keep his mother and the whole neighbourhood on thorns, and who is one of
the most delightful young imps ever turned loose in fiction, not even
excepting Sentimental Tommy. Captain Shale, with his scraps of rustic
philosophy, is a quaint original, worthy of David Harum's companionship.
His reflections on the subject of clothes are of a piece with those of
Teufelsdrochk: 'The world's a-dyin' of clo's. So fur as I can see, the
sons o' men is pretty much all a-strugglin' for one kind and another o'
clo's; that's what it amounts to...."
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._).
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
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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
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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. Vol. II. 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 Australia 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."
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 3s. 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._).
ANSWERS TO TAYLOR'S METRIC SYSTEM. 6d. (_post free 7d._).
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. Educational Gazette:= "A masterly and elaborate treatise for the
use of schools on a subject of world-wide interest and importance.... In
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essential, and it is, therefore, fitting that its underlying principles
should be taught in our schools concurrently with reduction, and
practised systematically in the more advanced grades. For this purpose
the book is unquestionably the best we have seen."
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 ELEMENTS OF EUCLID.
With Historical Introduction, Notes, Appendices and Miscellaneous
Examples.
BY J. D. ST. CLAIR MACLARDY, M.A., Lecturer at the
Training Colleges and Examiner for the New South Wales
Department of Public Instruction.
Books I.-IV. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. (_post free 3s.
10d._). Book I., separately, cloth, 1s. 6d. (_post free
1s. 9d._).
Books V.-VI. Cloth, 1s. 6d. (_post free 1s. 9d._).
=N.S.W. Educational Gazette:= "The most complete and logical discussion
of this part of the works of the great geometer that we have seen. An
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TRANSCRIBER NOTES:
Punctuation has been normalized.
Alternate and/or archaic spellings have been retained.
_x_ denotes italic script, =x= denotes bold print, and ^ denotes a
superscript.
Page 72: "horse's" changed to "horses'" (so hard on the
horses' feet).
Page 175: "resouces" changed to "resources" (for its
mineral resources.)
Page 177: "supples" changed to "supplies" (enabled the
early settlers to obtain supplies).
Page 193: "suppresssion" changed to "suppression" (wanton
impertinence that would require suppression.)
Page 195: "swagsmen" changed to "swagmen" (to ration the
swagmen as they pass along).
Page 241: "dessicated" changed to "desiccated" (the land
became desiccated, the lakes lost their freshness).
Page 254: "crystaline" changed to "crystalline" (the
auriferous area is confined to veins traversing a crystalline
diorite).
Page 257: duplicate "the" removed (would include all the
palaeozoic, metamorphic).
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Page 14: "setlement" changed to "settlement" (made its way
from settlement to settlement).
End of Project Gutenberg's Early Days in North Queensland, by Edward Palmer