AUSTRALIAN, HUMOUR.
Australians are full of sentiment, but in Australian literature, the sentiment is all too often disguised by a casehardened cynicism or spoilt by crudeness. In "The Happy Vagabond," by Margaret Fane and Hilary Lofting (Sydney: The Cornstalk Company), the* vagabond is a poet and.a musician, and the happenings that befall him after he' has been thrown from his motor-cycle on a mad' run when his fiancee has "thrown him down" are just sufficiently improbable to lift readers who are tired of the sameness of things into a happier frame of mind. The vagabond is a scion of an old English house, and he is.blessed with a tenor voice, and the rare faculty for seeing into peopled minds. He travels as a tinker, and is welcome everywhere. Like a true gipsy, he insists on settling other people's troubles by his arts. Amongst the sketchy narratives the way in which he Brings peace to an old major, who has lost three sons in the war, by proving, that- the fourth, the missing black, sheep, made as good •an end is recounted. i
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 96, 27 April 1929, Page 21
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