The story is alive with adventure–gun fights with bushrangers, shipwreck, the clash of the blacks with the all-conquering whites, the battle of wits between rivals for the great pastures of the cattle lands.
'The principal theme is the experiment made by one of the cattle barons who educated an aboriginal boy on an equal footing with his own white son, and the consequences, which were piquant in their effect on the lives of the people of the story.'
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'New Serial', Daily Examiner, 7 October 1936, p.4.
'It concerns the adventures of Bruce Sommervllle, and how he helps to checkmate the machinations of Slim Jim and his gang of cattle-duffers, who are known and dreaded over a wide area as "The Vanishing Horsemen.".
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'"The Vanishing Horsemen" (A.E. Yarra)', World's News, 6 August 1930, p.34.
'This is a romance continuing the adventures of the gentleman bushranger, "Lone- Hand Laracy," whose exploits formed one of the main themes in a previous serial in the "Daily Examiner." Laracy, having found a gold mine and fallen in love with a struggling doctor's daughter, is beset with the desire to reform and lead a respectable life, but he is handicapped by the fact that the troopers are looking for him with a reward on his head, dead or alive.'
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'New Serial', Daily Examiner, 27 January 1939, p.4.