Where the Day Begins (1911) 'closes with an episode of the Boer War relating to Lieutenant Harry Morant of the Bushveldt Carbineers ... The character of Henry Mordaunt in the novel is built round the personality of Morant. The story opens with romantic incidents following upon an explosion in the Kembla mines. After a sojourn in South Africa the leading characters return to New South Wales and re-enter politics. Mordaunt goes again to South Africa in command of a bushmen's contingent and meets an unhappy fate.'
(Source: Miller, Australian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1935, 1940.)
