PIONEERING DAYS
AN AUSTRALIAN NOVEL The pioneering days in Australia have formed a popular theme for Australian writers to . base their novels upon in recent years, and " Black Valleys," by M. W. Peacock, is a fine example of this type of story. The tale opens in Port Phillip Bay, transfers to an outback town in New South Wales and then passes to Bohemia. Dirided into two parts, the first section of the book deals with the struggles of Edward Ludlow and Anniska, his Bohemian wife, on a farm in an outback portion of New South Wales. The author has obviously studied his facts, and a very true and virid description of those early days is presented. -Tust as vivid and powerful is the description of Prague, to which the younger Ludlow girl goes in the hopes of finding her dead mother's relatives. While she is there war breaks out, and the author reveals a wonderful knowledge of the sufferings and privations of the Czechs in their fight for national freedom during those dark days. The story is exceedingly powerful, the characters life-like and sincere and the situations true to life. " Black Valleys," by M. W. Peacock, (Ancus nnd E^obertson.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22250, 26 October 1935, Page 9 (Supplement)
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199PIONEERING DAYS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22250, 26 October 1935, Page 9 (Supplement)
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