=The Academy:=--"I have never read anything in modern English literature that is so absolutely democratic in tone, so much the real thing, as _Joe Wilson's Courtship_. And so with all Lawson's tales and sketches. Tolstoy and Howells, and Whitman and Kipling, and Zola and Hauptmann and Gorky have all written descriptions of 'democratic' life; but none of these celebrated authors, not even Maupassant himself, has so absolutely taken us inside the life as do the tales _Joe Wilson's Courtship_ and _A Double Buggy at Lahey's Creek_, and it is this rare convincing tone of this Australian writer that gives him a great value. The most casual 'newspapery' and apparently artless art of this Australian writer carries with it a truer, finer, more delicate commentary on life than all the idealistic works of any of our genteel school of writers." VERSES: POPULAR AND HUMOROUS. By HENRY LAWSON, Author of "When the World was Wide, and Other Verses," "Joe Wilson and His Mates," "On the Track and Over the Sliprails," and "While the Billy Boils." Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (_post free 4s._). _For Cheaper Edition see Commonwealth Series, page 2._ FRANCIS THOMPSON, in =The Daily Chronicle=: "He is a writer of strong and ringing ballad verse, who gets his blows straight in, and at his best makes them all tell. He can vignette the life he knows in a few touches, and in this book shows an increased power of selection." =Academy=: "Mr. Lawson's work should be well known to our readers; for we have urged them often enough to make acquaintance with it. He has the gift of movement, and he rarely offers a loose rhyme. Technically, short of anxious lapidary work, these verses are excellent. He varies sentiment and humour very agreeably." =New York Evening Journal:= "Such pride as a man feels when he has true greatness as his guest, this newspaper feels in introducing to a million readers a man of ability hitherto unknown to them. Henry Lawson is his name." =The Book Lover:= "Any book of Lawson's should be bought and treasured by all who care for the real beginnings of Australian literature. As a matter of fact, he is the one Australian literary product, in any distinctive sense." ON THE TRACK AND OVER THE SLIPRAILS. Stories by HENRY LAWSON, Author of "While the Billy Boils," "Joe Wilson and his Mates," "When the World Was Wide and Other Verses," and "Verses, Popular and Humorous." Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (_post free 4s._). _For Cheaper Edition see Commonwealth Series, page 2._ =Daily Chronicle:= "Will well sustain the reputation its author has already won as the best writer of Australian short stories and sketches the literary world knows. Henry Lawson has the art, possessed in such eminent degree by Mr. J. M. Barrie, of sketching in a character and suggesting a whole life-story in a single sentence."