THE GOLDEN LURE.
"Them was the days!" The days when the horse was the only transport over the veldt, when the liire of new gold was strong, and when men became killers at the suspicion of it. Bingham Dixon lived in the saddle in those days, and lie has made a rip-roaring wild west story of what he saw and did in 'The Devil's Show" (Herbert Jenkins). Tt is the sunset frail over again, With the \ aal for its theatre, and filled to the brim with wild adventure among cattle rustlers, cold-blooded gunmen and goldmine stealers rushing round all over the landscape. The African scene develops a new technique for the author, who has made the story of an African farm as exciting a tale of battle, murder and sudden death as the most experienced reader of thrills of the open spaces could desire. The author does not rely upon coincidence or the wildly improbable. His characters are human and they do what might be expected of them according to their several instinct*.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 126, 29 May 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)
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173THE GOLDEN LURE. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 126, 29 May 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)
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