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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS

Tee Canterbury " Press " says :'—" Outwardly this book has the appearance ot a shilling shocker, but inwardly it is crammed full of love-making, adventure, description of station, goldmining and bushfighting life in New Zealand, .together with quite a respectable allowance of the history of the colony woven in."

Wairarapa "Standard :" — "This is a capital story. By ibs combination of fiction with fact, of stirring historical occurrences with love-making and up-country rae. meetings, 'Frank Melton's Luck' does something to roll away the reproach that we have no distinctive literabure, nobhing redolent of bhe land and life of New-; Zealand. . . .-Mr Cottle has a great 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 muster, 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 Hauhau War. . . . . can be attested by those who took parb in bhem." •

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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 141, 15 June 1892, Page 7

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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 141, 15 June 1892, Page 7

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 141, 15 June 1892, Page 7