=Pall Mall Gazette:= "The volume now received will do much to enhance the author's reputation. There is all the quiet irresistible humour of Dickens in the description of 'The Darling River,' and the creator of 'Truthful James' never did anything better in the way of character sketches than Steelman and Mitchell. Mr. Lawson has a master's sense of what is dramatic, and he can bring out strong effects in a few touches. Humour and pathos, comedy and tragedy, are equally at his command." =Glasgow Herald:= "Mr. Lawson must now be regarded as facile princeps in the production of the short tale. Some of these brief and even slight sketches are veritable gems that would be spoiled by an added word, and without a word that can be looked upon as superfluous." =Melbourne Punch:= "Often the little stories are wedges cut clean out of life, and presented with artistic truth and vivid colour." WHILE THE BILLY BOILS. Stories 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 "Verses, Popular and Humorous." Twenty-third Thousand. With eight plates and vignette title, by F. P. Mahony. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (_post free 4s._). _For Cheaper Edition see Commonwealth Series, page 2._ =The Academy:= "A book of honest, direct, sympathetic, humorous writing about Australia from within is worth a library of travellers' tales.... The result is a real book--a book in a hundred. His language is terse, supple, and richly idiomatic. He can tell a yarn with the best." =Literature:= "A book which Mrs. Campbell Praed assured me made her feel that all she had written of bush life was pale and ineffective." =The Spectator:= "It is strange that one we would venture to call the greatest Australian writer should be practically unknown in England. Mr. Lawson is a less experienced writer than Mr. Kipling, and more unequal, but there are two or three sketches in this volume which for vigour and truth can hold their own with even so great a rival." =The Times:= "A collection of short and vigorous studies and stories of Australian life and character. A little in Bret Harte's manner, crossed, perhaps, with that of Guy de Maupassant." =The Scotsman:= "There is no lack of dramatic imagination in the construction of the tales; and the best of them contrive to construct a strong sensational situation in a couple of pages." WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE AND OTHER VERSES. By HENRY LAWSON, Author of "While the Billy Boils;" "Joe Wilson and his Mates," "On the Track and Over the Sliprails," and "Verses, Popular and Humorous." Eleventh Thousand. With photogravure portrait and vignette title. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 5s. (_post free 5s. 5d._). _Presentation edition, French Morocco, gilt edges, 9s._