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' It is a long rambling meditation on the Australian environment, alternately chatty and abstruse, full of literary allusions, scientific jargon, footnotes, and a certain Irish weakness for punning and self-parody.' Belinda McKay and Patrick Buckridge 'Literay Imaginings of the Bunya', Queensland Review 9:2 (November 2002): 65-79.

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  • Epigraph: The thread of our life would be dark, heaven knows, If it were not with friendship and love intertwined, And I care not how soon I may think to repose When these blessings shall cease to be dear to my mind. But they who have loved, the fondest, the purest, Too often have wept o'er the dream they believed; And the heart that has slumbered in friendship securest Is happy indeed; if 'twas never deceived. Moore.
  • Dedication: Haud Immemor. To the Memory of Thomas Moore, The Poet of All Circles, The Delight of His Own, Whose writings first induced the feelings that prompted a desire to follow in his footsteps. This little work is most regardfully inscribed by the Author.

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: F. Cunninghame , 1874 .
      Extent: ii, 63p.p.
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      • The John Oxley Library copy is 'Inscribed: To Mrs. R. W. Mayne with the author's regards. J. H. Hornibrook states: This is a specially bound copy intended as a presentation copy from the author to his wife, Helen Alexa.' (Libraries Australia record)
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Literary Imaginings of the Bunya Belinda McKay , Patrick Buckridge , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , November vol. 9 no. 2 2002; (p. 65-79) 'By the time that Europeans became acquainted with the bunya, the gum tree was already well established as the iconic Australian tree. The genus Eucalyptus, with all its locally specific variants, was both distinctive to the continent and widely dispersed throughout it. In contrast, the bunya tree (classified as Araucaria bidwillii in 1843) grew in a small area of what is now South-East Queensland and was seen by few Europeans before the 1840s, when Moreton Bay was opened to free settlement. The physical distinctiveness of the bunya tree, and stories of the large gatherings which accompanied the triennial harvesting ofits nut, aroused the curiosity of early European explorers and settlers, and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the bunya tree achieved a special status in local civic culture. Although heavy logging had largely destroyed the great bunya forests, the tree was planted extensively in school grounds, around war memorials and in long avenues in parks.' (Introduction) 
Review 1874 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 2 May vol. 9 no. 226 1874; (p. 706)
— Review of The Two Visions, or, The Contrast : An Australian Story Robert West Mayne , 1874 single work poetry
Review 1874 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 2 May vol. 9 no. 226 1874; (p. 706)
— Review of The Two Visions, or, The Contrast : An Australian Story Robert West Mayne , 1874 single work poetry
Literary Imaginings of the Bunya Belinda McKay , Patrick Buckridge , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , November vol. 9 no. 2 2002; (p. 65-79) 'By the time that Europeans became acquainted with the bunya, the gum tree was already well established as the iconic Australian tree. The genus Eucalyptus, with all its locally specific variants, was both distinctive to the continent and widely dispersed throughout it. In contrast, the bunya tree (classified as Araucaria bidwillii in 1843) grew in a small area of what is now South-East Queensland and was seen by few Europeans before the 1840s, when Moreton Bay was opened to free settlement. The physical distinctiveness of the bunya tree, and stories of the large gatherings which accompanied the triennial harvesting ofits nut, aroused the curiosity of early European explorers and settlers, and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the bunya tree achieved a special status in local civic culture. Although heavy logging had largely destroyed the great bunya forests, the tree was planted extensively in school grounds, around war memorials and in long avenues in parks.' (Introduction) 
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