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'...the consistent and successful attempt of too many English reviewers to twaddle Australian authors out of the English market, and at the same time to thust upon us English notions of Australian life about as accurate and artistic as a Fiji Islander's notions of the celestial city... There is a tale to be told of Australian life, and it will be only told aright by one who has drunk deeply of the the Australian spirit...'