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'This memorial volume is chiefly valuable as showing the extent of his kingdom. From grave to gay, from tragedy to comedy;... In verse and in prose he had the master's touch... The prose sketches are somewhat more satisfying; in one or two at least there has been more done in the way of touching the distinguishing facts of Australian life than by any other author, and it is always the touch of genuis...'