'Mr. A. Ian Macleod tells a story of the back mining camps in "Hack's Brat," and the generosity of men whose virtues the average city man and woman would be inclined to say were few and far between. "Hack's Brat" is an engaging youngster, apparently from nowhere, who is thrown on the world when her protector dies, and adopted by a young mining engineer. The musical career of the girl is brightly told, and at the end one is more than glad to hear the marriage bells in the distance than to hear of a trip to Europe to polish the voice. It is one of the latest of the New South Wales Bookstall Company's series.'
Source:
'Hack's Brat', The Queenslander, 28 August 1920, p.3.
