OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
The Canterbury " Press " siys :—" Outwardly this book has the appearance ot a shilling shocker, but inwardly it ie crammed full ot love-making, adventure, description of station, goldmining and bushflghting life in New Zealand, together with quite a respectable allowance of the history of tho colony woven in." Wairarapa " Standard :" — " is a capital story. By its combination of fiction with fact, of stirring historical occurrences with love-making and up-country race meetings, ' Frank Melton's JLuck' does something to roll away the reproach that we have no distinctive literature, nothing redolent of the land and life of New Zealand. ... Mr Cottle has a greab gift of description, and with the minute touches ot a Defoe, he makes his readers realise the scenes he puts before them."
" Northern Advocate ":— "Of scenes typical of station life, the cattle master, the pig hunt and the Christmas party are admirably described, and the truth, accuracy, and vividness of the depiction given of the gold fever in ' the good old mining days,' and of the Haubau War. . . can be attested by those who took parb in them."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1892, Page 3
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183OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1892, Page 3
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