y separately published work icon The Farmer and Settler newspaper issue  
Issue Details: First known date: 1919... 2 September 1919 of The Farmer and Settler est. 1906 The Farmer and Settler
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* Contents derived from the , 1919 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
City Battlers : Confidence Men as the Heroes of a Story, single work column
— Review of The Doings of Dave Con Drew , 1919 single work short story ;

The underworld of Australian clties Is no longer an unexplored field, and the spieler and the battler are no longer unknown to fame, for Con Drew has given them a place in literature. In Jinker he showed the reading public that he knew of haunts of the underworld to which they had never penetrated, and now in a new book, The Doings of Dave, he enables us to become better acquainted with the spielers of the race-course and the battlers of back streets...'

 (p. 8)
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