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 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."

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."

=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.

_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 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. 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 commercial life a knowledge of the metric system has been for some years 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 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."

THE AUSTRALIAN OBJECT LESSON BOOK.